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There is nothing idle about it: Deference and dominance in gossip as a function of role, personality, and social context.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	There is nothing idle about it: Deference and dominance in gossip as a function of role, personality, and social context./
Author:	Young, Randall Curtis.
Description:	73 p.
Notes:	Chair: Dacher Keltner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03B.
Subject:	Psychology, Personality. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3044747
ISBN:	0493586466

There is nothing idle about it: Deference and dominance in gossip as a function of role, personality, and social context.
Young, Randall Curtis.

There is nothing idle about it: Deference and dominance in gossip as a function of role, personality, and social context. - 73 p.

Chair: Dacher Keltner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

I define gossip as a form of off-record communication involving positive or negative reputational information about a specific group member that one individual delivers to a close companion from the same group. Based on this conceptualization, I explored the flow and content of gossip within a group of sorority women. In the first phase of the study, sorority sisters made sociometric ratings about one another. Consistent with the notion that gossip functions as a mechanism of social control, sociometric analyses showed that frequent targets of gossip were more controversial group members. In contrast, sorority sisters who were frequent receivers of gossip had high status and were admired group members. In the second phase of the study, pairs of close friends from the same sorority gossiped about one high status and one low status sorority sister. Half of the pairs were accountable for their gossip and half gossiped in confidence. I predicted that the dominant and deferential content of actual gossip behavior would vary according to role, personality, and social context. In accord with their role in the sorority, frequent targets of gossip were more deferential in their gossip whereas frequent receivers were more dominant. In terms of personality, Machiavellianism correlated positively with highly dominant gossip behavior, whereas social desirability and agreeableness correlated with deferential gossip. Finally, in terms of social context, gossip about high status targets and accountable gossip was more deferential. These findings are consistent with the tenets of Politeness Theory (Brown & Levinson, 1987) and the Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2001), Discussion speculates about the purposes of gossip and areas for future research.

ISBN: 0493586466Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017585
Psychology, Personality.

There is nothing idle about it: Deference and dominance in gossip as a function of role, personality, and social context.
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