
S3 Ep7: The Science Behind Gossip with Eshin Jolly
Normal Gossip
How Does the Mixture Change When People Can't See Everything?
Gossip is as a concept, scientifically, or folk intuition wise, like kind of messy to define concretely. So we created this scenario. And so what we can basically do now is sort of look at what happens when people are in this sort of context where they can't see everything and they have the ability to send these messages. It's funny because I feel like if you're playing that game as someone who doesn't know what's going on, you're probably like, oh, this is a measure of like generosity or selfishness? When in reality, you're like, what are you guys saying in your side DMs? Yeah. Exactly.
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