Are You a Guilty Plea?

Psychological research argues that gossip is really an elemental part of humanity. The functional purpose of gossip, these scientists would argue, is to communicate very important information. For example, if you are gossiping about people that are at your office, you know who's really enemies with whom and what they said. That's inside information that could be helpful. Because we are social species, gossip is a way that we can give valuable information at relatively low costs.