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Good Gossip.
Byline: Amy Larocca
Blabbermouth. Tattletale. Scandalmonger. Spreading gossip may seem uncouth--but science says otherwise.
My office is a ten-minute walk from where I live, and most mornings, I spend that time on the phone chatting with one of my friends. Our topics vary in significance--a friend may have gotten pregnant, a new job, or some new shoes. Sometimes we are kind, generous, forgiving. ("Didn't so-and-so look pretty last night?") Other times--I'm ashamed to admit--we are less so. We gossip about people we know, but we also gossip about the strangers whose pictures we see so often that we feel we do. ("Oh, that poor Amy Winehouse," we might ...
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