3.They were not just disapproving; they also said they would be more likely to give the gossiper lower performance ratings and to recommend bonus reductions.
4.I have noticed three effects of gossip: it can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.
5.Another experiment, conducted by Kim Peters and Miguel Fonseca of the University of Exeter, found, among other things, that lies cropped up twice as frequently when gossipers were told they were in competition with each other.
6.I think of the sharing of office politics as sharing of gossip, which is that the research shows that gossip most negatively reflects not on the topic, the subject of the gossip, but the gossiper.