There are several reasons for why people may be motivated to engage in gossip, such as group protection, status enhancement, and social bonding. In an on-line study (N = 372), we investigated how individual differences affect gossiping behaviour by examining the relationship between the Dark Triad (i.e., primary and secondary psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism) and motivations to goss...

This thesis gives a formal logical analysis of a social phenomenon; gossip. Gossip can be used to serve many goals. The Sherlock Holmes’ of our society -always looking for an explanationmight use gossip to find an explanation for a surprising observation. Also for the agents that are not so eager to find the truth, for those who are more concerned about their social position instead, gossip mig...

A concept of systolic dissemination of information in interconnection networks is presented, and the complexity of systolic gossip and broadcast in one-way (telegraph) and two-way (telephone) communication mode is investigated. The following main results are established: (i) a general relation between systolic broadcast and systolic gossip, (ii) optimal systolic gossip algorithms on paths in bo...

In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of gossip in the mobile telephone model: a recently introduced variation of the classical telephone model modified to better describe the local peer-to-peer communication services implemented in many popular smartphone operating systems. In more detail, the mobile telephone model differs from the classical telephone model in three ways: (1) each d...

of the Dissertation Gossip and the Group: A Self-Categorization Perspective by Dana Turcotte Claremont Graduate University: 2012 Gossip is a little studied topic and even fewer studies have examined gossip from the perspective of social identity and self categorization theories. However, many of the functions of gossip have significant implications for group processes, including bonding, norm t...

In this paper we propose distributed algorithms to automatically deploy a group of robotic agents and provide coverage of a discretized environment represented by a graph. We present a discrete coverage algorithm which converges to a centroidal Voronoi partition while requiring only pairwise “gossip” communication between the agents. Our theoretical analysis is based on a dynamical system on pa...

This work presents two new construction techniques for q-ary Gossip codes from tdesigns and Traceability schemes. These Gossip codes achieve the shortest code length specified in terms of code parameters and can withstand erasures in digital fingerprinting applications. This work presents the construction of embedded Gossip codes for extending an existing Gossip code into a bigger code. It disc...

Gossip is one of the most widespread human activities with multiple functions such as enhancing human cooperation, establishing social order, information sharing, norm enhancing or stress reduction. Gossip has been analyzed mostly by qualitative or survey methods. In this paper, we describe a quantitative approach to identify gossip in a large corpus containing spontaneous talk with LDA topic m...

The purpose of this study is to get a working definition that matches people’s intuitive notion of gossip and is sufficiently precise for computational implementation. We conducted two experiments investigating what type of conversations people intuitively understand and interpret as gossip, and whether they could identify three proposed constituents of gossip conversations: third person focus,...

We investigate how suitable a weighted network is for gossip spreading. The proposed model is based on the gossip spreading model introduced by Lind et.al. on unweighted networks. Weight represents “friendship. Potential spreader prefers not to spread if the victim of gossip is a “close friend”. Gossip spreading is related to the triangles and cascades of triangles. It gives more insight about ...