Is Truth Less Powerful Than Gossip ?
Sunday, November 11th, 2007By nature people tend to believe in gossip other than the truth, a study has shown. It has found further that gossip played a vital role in people lives for making a decision, noted an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute who led the study. It has also shown that gossip has still a strong influence to people despite their access to original information. Hence, it has been noted that gossip has strong manipulative potential to people. With a series of experiments conducted by researchers through playing games, people reacted by a mere gossip as soon as they receive the information despite no hard evidence to substantiate it when they responded to give less to those who are described as “nasty misers” and give more to those who are portrayed as “generous players”.
