Study: People are strongly influenced by gossip even when it is explicitly untrustworthy

The experiments show that we tend to judge people on a strongly emotional basis, even if this judgment is knowingly based on unreliable evidence.

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Study: People are strongly influenced by gossip even when it is explicitly untrustworthy

New research in the journal Emotion suggests that people are highly influenced by gossip, even when it is explicitly identified as untrustworthy. The ...

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