Psychology: About the social consequences of gossiping – knowledge

Quite as easy as it is The doctors think, unfortunately it is often not. “Let people talk and just don’t listen” is nice advice. But the band won’t reveal how things will go on in the long term. The consequences a victim of negative gossip may have to deal with can be very uncomfortable. Above all, one has to expect to receive less help from others and to be excluded from further comforts that are normally brought about by community life. To this conclusion there are several current studies in the specialist journal Philosophical Transactions B..