What is it that makes gossip so irresistible? Examples of its pull and power - they exist all over pop culture. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THEME FROM GOSSIP GIRL") KRISTEN BELL: (As Narrator, singing) X O X ...

OXFORD, Miss. — Fifteen percent of people would rather be trash-talked behind their backs than not mentioned at all. A new study has found that while most of us claim to hate gossip, many would rather ...

There’s something deeply healing about hearing someone else’s messy drama. Not your circus, not your monkeys, but please tell me how your cousin faked being a twin for six months to get out of work.

Let’s be real, we all love a bit of gossip — yes, even the people who claim they don’t. Whether it’s whispering about a coworker’s love life, dissecting an old high school friend’s cryptic Instagram ...

Gossip’, a term that always comes with a certain judgement value added but in a recent research published by University of California, Riverside states that “Gossip, in the academic’s view, is not bad ...

When people chat about you in your absence, does it make you uneasy, or do you secretly crave the attention? Recent research from the University of Mississippi, Duke University, and Germany’s ...

In this graph of a social network created by Brown University Ph.D. student Alice Xia, the red dot represents the target of gossip, the green dot is the person who is sharing gossip, and the black ...

What is it that makes gossip so irresistible? Examples of its pull and power - they exist all over pop culture. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) No, I swear. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) ...