Gossiping—whether we like to admit it or not, we've all done it. With 70 percent of Americans talking about their relatives, family gossip was highlighted as the most popular kind of gossip, research ...

Mean Girls and pop culture has taught us to fear gossip as toxic and cruel, the whispered fuel of cliques and drama. But what if we've been getting gossip all wrong? New research from UNM's ...

People like to gossip. Gossip is information shared about an absent third party. Gossip differs from the human tendency to talk about other people in that gossip tends to focus on negative information ...

Gossiping gets a bad rap, but psychology experts say it could actually benefit our mental health. The activity can help "make meaning of our world and situations," according to Thea Gallagher, PsyD, ...