Who Gossips and How in Everyday Life?

Although laypeople often view gossipers as immoral, uneducated, typically female, and of lower social class, no systematic observation has empirically revealed the characteristics of those who gossip more than others nor examined the characteristics of gossip across everyday contexts. We used data from five naturalistic observation studies ( N = 467) to examine who gossips and how. All participants wore the Electronically Activated Recorder...