Study: People strongly influenced by gossip even when explicitly untrustworthy

(PsyPost) New research in the journal Emotion suggests that people are highly influenced by gossip, even when it is explicitly identified as untrustworthy. The findings indicate that qualifiers such as “allegedly” do little to temper the effects of negative information on a person’s likeability. “Words and phrases like ‘apparently’, ‘allegedly’ or ‘is suspected of’ are […]

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