Who’s up on the low down: Gossip in interpersonal relations

The Dark Side of Close Relationships

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 103-117

  Jaeger, Marianne E ^a   Skelder, Anne A ^b   Rosnow, Ralph L ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85068801762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410601117-11     Document Type: Chapter

References (33)

1. Anthony, S. (1973). Anxiety and rumor. Journal of Social Psychology, 89, 91-98.
2. Ben-Ze’ev, A. (1994). The vindication of gossip. In R. F. Goodman & A. Ben-Ze’ev (Eds.), Good gossip (pp. 11-14). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
3. Bergmann, J. R. (1993). Discreet indiscretions: The social organization of gossip. New York: Aldine DeGruyter.
4. Bok, S. (1984). Secrets: On the ethics of concealment and revelation. New York: Vintage.
5. Crowne, D. P, & Marlowe, D. (1964). The approval motive: Studies in evaluative dependence. New York: Wiley.
6. Eagly, A. H. (1987). Sex differences in social behavior: A social-role interpretation. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
7. Emier, N. (1994). Gossip, reputation, and social adaptation. In R. F. Goodman, & A. Ben-Ze’ev (Eds.), Goodgossip, (pp. 117-138). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
8. Festinger, L., Schachter, S., & Back, K. (1950). Social pressures in informal groups. New York: Harper & Row.
9. Gluckman, M. (1963). Gossip and scandal. Current Anthropology, 4, 307-316.
10. Gottman, J., & Mettetal, G. (1986). Speculations about social and affective development: Friendship and acquaintance through adolescence. In J. Gottman, & J. Parker (Eds.), Conversations of friends: Speculations on affective development (pp. 192-237). New York: Cambridge University Press.
11. Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time. New York: Harper & Row.
12. Jaeger, M. E., Anthony, S, & Rosnow R. L. (1980). Who hears what from whom and with what effect: A study of rumor. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 6, 473-478.
13. Jaeger, M. E., Skleder, A. A., Rind, B., & Rosnow, R. L. (1994). Gossip, gossipers, gossipees. In R. F. Goodman & A. Ben-Ze’ev (Eds.), Goodgossip (pp. 154-168). Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.
14. Levin, J., & Arluke, A. (1985). An exploratory analysis of sex differences in gossip. SexRoles, 12, 281-286.
15. Levin, J., & Arluke, A. (1987). Gossip: The inside scoop. New York: Plenum.
16. Morris, W (Ed.). (1981). American heritage dictionary of the English language. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
17. Nevo, O., Nevo, B., & Derech-Zehavi, A. (1994). The tendency to gossip as a psychological disposition: Constructing a measure and validating it. In R. F. Goodman, & A. N. Ben-Ze’ev (Eds.), Goodgossip (pp. 180-189). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
18. Rosenberg, M. J. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
19. Rosnow, R. L. (1991). Inside rumor: A personal journey. American Psychologist, 46, 484-496.
20. Rosnow, R. L., & Georgoudi, M. (1985). Killed by idle gossip: The psychology of small talk. In B. Rubin (Ed.), When information counts (pp. 59-73). Lexington, MA: Heath.
21. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (1996a). Computing contrasts, effect sizes, and counternulls on other people’s published data: General procedures for research consumers. Psychological Methods, 1, 331-340.
22. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (1996b). Contrasts and interactions redux: Five easy pieces. Psychological Science, 7, 253-257.
23. Rosnow, R. L., Wainer, H., & Arms, R. L. (1969). Anderson’s personality trait-words rated by mean and women as a function of stimulus sex. Psychological Reports, 24, 787-790.
24. Rysman, A. R. (1977). How gossip became a woman. Journal of Communication, 27, 176-180.
25. Sabini, J., & Silver, M. (1982). Moralities of everyday life. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
26. Schein, S. (1994). Used and abused: Gossip in medieval society. In R. F. Goodman, & A. Ben-Ze’ev (Eds.), Goodgossip, (pp. 139-153). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
27. Simpson, J. A., & Weiner, E. S. C. [prepared by]. (1989). The Oxford English dictionary (2nd ed., Vol. 6). Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
28. Spacks, P M. (1985). Gossip. New York: Knopf.
29. Spender, D. (1980). Man made language. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
30. Tannen, D. (1990). You just don’t understand: Women and men in conversation. New York: Morrow.
31. Taylor, J. A. (1953). A personality scale of manifest anxiety. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 48, 285-290.
32. Tebbutt, M. (1995). Women’s talk? A social history of ‘gossip’ in working-class neighbourhoods, 1880-1960. Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press.
33. Thomas, L. (1994). The logic of gossip. In R. F. Goodman, & A. Ben-Ze’ev (Eds.), Goodgossip, (pp. 47-55). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.