Gossip and reputation in everyday life

Terence Daniel Dores Cruz, Isabel Thielmann, Simon Columbus, Catherine Molho, Junhui Wu, Reinout de Vries, Antonios Koutsoumpis, PAM van Lange, Bianca Beersma, Dan Balliet

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Abstract

Gossip—a sender communicating to a receiver about an absent third party—is hypothesized to impact reputation formation, partner selection, and cooperation. Lab experiments have found that people gossip about others’ cooperativeness and that they use gossip to condition their cooperation. Here, we move beyond the lab and test several predictions...
Original languageEnglish
Pages1-24
Number of pages24
Volume2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Jun 2020

Publication series

NamePsyArXiv

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