Nasty and Noble Notes: Interdependence Structures Drive Self-Serving Gossip.

Autor: Dores Cruz TD; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands., van der Lee R; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Bechtoldt MN; EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany., Beersma B; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Personality & social psychology bulletin [Pers Soc Psychol Bull] 2023 May 25, pp. 1461672231171054. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 25.
DOI: 10.1177/01461672231171054
Abstrakt: Much information people receive about others reaches them via gossip. But is this gossip trustworthy? We examined this in a scenario study ( N senders = 350, N observations = 700) and an interactive laboratory experiment ( N senders = 126; N observations = 3024). In both studies, participants played a sequential prisoner's dilemma where a gossip sender observed a target 's (first decider's) decision and could gossip about this to a receiver (second decider). We manipulated the interdependence structure such that gossipers' outcomes were equal to targets' outcomes, equal to receivers' outcomes, or independent. Compared to no interdependence, gossip was more often false when gossipers were interdependent with targets but not when interdependent with receivers. As such, false positive gossip (self-serving when interdependent with targets) increased but false negative gossip (self-serving when interdependent with receivers) did not. In conclusion, the interdependence structure affected gossip's trustworthiness: When gossipers' outcomes were interdependent with targets, gossip was less trustworthy.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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