Psst…come here! Are you already aware of this? For a long time, we women have had the reputation of being gossips, who love to talk about other people’s lives and their problems. However, studies have shown that this is not the case and discoveries have been made: men gossip even more than women.
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Men spend more of their time than women gossiping about other people’s lives. If you don’t even believe the research, you must accept at least one factor: men are just as gossipy as women, what changes are the topics. But, without a doubt, women have sharper and more ferocious tongues than men.
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In the survey, men said they feel more like a group when they gossip and it points out that men also use gossip for pure self-affirmation, when, for example, men boast about having gone out with a woman. Women gossip to pass the time and spend much of their time talking about themselves or their colleagues.
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Although gossip is not welcome, there is no one who has never gossiped about their neighbor. Gossip is a custom and even a necessity. According to some psychologists, gossip consolidates friendships, as we only gossip to people we trust.
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According to experts, there is beneficial gossip. For example, when you feel a duty to warn someone about a risk. When a person knows about this risk and doesn’t tell them, they feel tense and frustrated, but when they tell them, their tension is relieved. So, gossip is good when you have common sense. As long as gossip is not for your own benefit, but is important to others as well and there is respect for others, gossiping becomes beneficial.
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So beneficial, in fact, that a British study brought together a group of people and asked them to say something bad or good about a person. People who spoke well felt their self-esteem was high, while those who spoke poorly felt lower.
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An article published by Estadão reported some comparisons that the authors of an Italian book made about gossip, saying that: gossiping is good for the skin, which is why it is better than botox, rejuvenates, does not make you fat and is as comforting as eating chocolate.
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Infographic: who is the most gossipy? The man or the woman?
Source: http://www.sirc.org/publik/gossip.shtml.
