Although many women report being victimized by gossip, fewer report spreading negative gossip. Female gossipers might be unaware they are gossiping if they disclose such statements out of concern for targets. Four studies (N = 1709) investigated whether women believe their gossip is motivated by concern and whether expressing concern for targets insulates female gossipers against social costs, while simultaneously impairing targets' reputations.
Male participants reported lower romantic interest in female gossip targets when they learned concern (versus malicious or no) gossip, suggesting concerned gossip can harm female targets' romantic prospects. Study 4 revealed these patterns extend to face-to-face interactions. A female gossiper was preferred as a social partner when she phrased her gossip with concern versus maliciously. Moreover, concerned gossip harmed perceptions of the female target as effectively as malicious gossip. Altogether, findings suggest that negative gossip delivered with concern effectively harms female targets' reputations, while also protecting gossipers' reputations, indicating a viable strategy in female intrasexual competition.
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Everybody loves bullying people but we need to hear about a bad thing they might have done first so we become le good guys for doing it. I have a motivational poster on my wall that says: "BARDFINN BEAT HIS WIFE"
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newest bardfriend is SneedmansLostForeskin at 03:08 on 27-10-2024
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Well, yeah. That's why chicks talk about others that way.
We needed a study for this?
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Yes so we can drop a peer reviewed source when evopsych trvkes make the masses angry
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Have you seen
@Landlord_Messiah lately? She's looking rough, she's put on weight and her hair is a mess. I'm just worried about her. I hope she's okay. Have you heard anything? 
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Someone should call her. You've got all your work though, and I'm so busy with the kids, and I don't know she has anyone else who can check in. Do you think her family are still holding that grudge? It's such a shame they haven't forgiven her yet.
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WOW - women bully other women and totally don't know they're doing it and just have the other woman's best interest at heart. And to crater their victims (rivals) prospects with romantinc partners (that they totally aren't jealous because of not receiving the attention)?
Unheard of! Inconceivable! Misogynistic!
Well at least we have a study to prove that saying 'Oh my God Helen, how are your genital warts?' delivered with a smile loudly at a watercooler in front of Chad is actually malicious.
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Women be talkin.
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Snapshots:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103124000830:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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