This study investigates the co-evolution of friendship and gossip in organizations. Two
contradicting perspectives are tested. The social capital perspective predicts that friendship …

Gossip, the exchange of personal information about absent third parties, is ubiquitous in
human societies. However, the evolution of gossip remains a puzzle. The current article …

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

Embeddedness has been touted as a framework for knowledge exchange and innovation,
and thus as an important precondition for high-level performance. Embeddedness of …

In this study, we investigate the coping response of individuals who are being gossiped
about. Drawing on face research and affective events theory, we propose that employees …

Complex language and communication is one of the unique hallmarks that distinguishes
humans from most other animals. Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of our …

Information from others can be unreliable. Humans nevertheless act on such information,
including gossip, to make various social calculations, thus raising the question of whether …

Gossip is rarely praised. There seems little virtuous that is about talking behind someone's
back. Whether there is anything virtuous about gossip, however, depends on the kind of …

We discuss the way of hoax spreading as gossip and rumor throughout the social media, ie:
Twitter, by observing an empirical case in Indonesia. We discuss the spreading factor of the …

Laws of rumor makers' behaviors are the root of curbing rumor and effective way to block
rumor occurrence. Therefore, based on system dynamics model, this paper proposed the …