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- Gossiping has a bad reputation.
- But according to some research, we may have evolved to gossip.
- Talking about other people can create bonds and make other people see us more positively.
- But it can backfire if you only talk about people negatively.
Calling someone a gossip isn’t exactly a compliment. It’s commonly known that “great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.”
Even so, gossiping is a guilty pleasure many of us can’t resist.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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