Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in
human societies. After reviewing models that connect reputations and cooperation, we …

Most of the current literature on gossip describes gossipmongers as incessantly sharing
evaluative and valuable information about an absent third party in teams, groups …

Gossip is often invoked as playing a fundamental role for creating, sustaining, or destroying
cooperation. The reason seems straightforward: gossip can make or break someone's …

Advice-seeking typically occurs across organizational boundaries through informal
connections. By using Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models (SAOM), previous research has …

This chapter attempts to show how an understanding of gossip and reputation in adults can
be informed by an analysis of the growth of simpler forms of behavioral reporting and …

To stop the spread of the Coronavirus, people must avoid infection risk. Given widespread
skepticism regarding information concerning the Coronavirus received from authorities, one …

The premise of this book is that research into gossip, organization, and work is an important
idea whose time has come. A key feature of the book is the inclusion of 'practice points' …

This introductory chapter sketches the contours of an emerging multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary research program on the conceptual foundations, antecedents, dynamics …

Anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists have learned a great deal about the nature
of gossip since Gluckman's (1963) influential anthropological treatise on the subject, yet the …

Influence propagation in social networks is a subject of growing interest. A relevant issue in
those networks involves the identification of key influencers. These players have an …