What gossip that? Those are real to the enemy on the network news, it is the topic of the forum highest CTR, forwarding rate is the highest piece of Sina Weibo, the talk of gossip relish, is co-owned secret among friends. Although few people will be very proud to recognize the "I like to watch celebrity gossip, celebrity privacy," but the site click on the most is the news, this is the best selling magazine in the newsstand, friends talk about the most popular party but also a variety of "gossip." Why do people like to gossip it? Psychologists have conducted a lot of research and found the mystery.
There are ancient gossip
Professor of psychology at Knox College American Frank - McAndrew think gossip is not the product of popular culture, ancient times. Frank pointed out that gossip and gossip is to maintain populations within a communication tool to promote community stability and prosperity. Stone Age ancestors in the form of tribal survival, on the one hand they want to cooperate with each other to go out hunting to resist foreign on the other hand, have fought for power potential competition between members of the tribe. Survive in the brutal environment, one of the means to ensure the survival and development is to have companions and enemies information in order to better confront unknown risks, access to resources. Modern humans are born with gossip about genes.
Why gossip people happy?
Read Music Gossip can make people feel good. We all know that chocolate can make people feel happy, because chocolate stimulates the secretion of endorphins in the brain, so there is a chocolate makes people feel happy. Why Evolutionary psychologist Dr Baker study people will always enjoy celebrity gossip. After much research, she found the time to read celebrity gossip, readers of brain cells will be actively mobilized. She found celebrity gossip and chocolate, like the human brain can stimulate the secretion of endorphins. May be because more calories and feel some regret after people eat chocolate, and celebrity gossip brings people pleasure, but also do not worry about fat! So for celebrity gossip enthusiasm a bit like drug abuse, addiction to gossip because it makes us feel good.
Gossip can relieve the pressure?
Increasingly rapid pace of modern life, the pressure is also growing, people are exhausted apart, eager to regulate nerve through some channels, relieve anxiety. In the spirit of popular entertainment gossip, not only allows us to ridicule by stars, celebrities for fun, but also took the opportunity to vent, resolve emotional.
People prefer to talk to release the pressure. People tell other people through "experience," and took the opportunity to vent their feelings of your heart, appear to sympathize with others, it is in fact to reassure himself. At the same time, also with the others "unfortunate" to do comparison, to balance the unbalanced mind.
Scientists found that people often gossip happiness index significantly higher than the man of few words. People are faced with stress and frustration of life, properly express their dissatisfaction and complaints, release negative emotions, relieve inner anxiety. Gossip is also a logical expression do not need to pay attention to the language, do not report, you do not have to be responsible, not thinking burden.
Intimacy, gossip from the start?
Psychologists say, gossip is a way to promote group solidarity, help narrow the interpersonal distance. Talk about gossip, share with each other news, showing everybody the same "circle" where, while demonstrating the close and friendly, but also the formation of some kind of "psychological contract", encourages everyone to become friends. Sensational gossip and eye-catching effect can make gossip speculators short time quickly became the focus of attention can be obtained vanity satisfaction. People love to gossip, not only created a hugely entertaining effect, but also play a lubricating effect relationships, establish some like-minded intimacy. Psychologist Robin? Dunbar think gossip is a social intelligence, good gossip is "high emotional intelligence" of the expression. The grapevine is that people do not want to expose more of the "Privacy" can actually hear them, it could prove popular with those who gossip and communication skills, personal charisma to add points.
Why women are more gossip?
Think about it, "March" seems to always behind with the "woman", "tongues" is always behind with the "woman" - Does a woman born to love gossip more than men?
Psychological experts believe that women love to gossip, in fact, began the era of the little girl, elementary school lower grades may have little sisters share a common secret, began the "gossip" life. When they grow up, they will have their own "girlfriends." The so-called girlfriends, in fact, share a little secret girlfriend each other in the harem. Experts believe that the girl and her mother had a habit of "whisper", this is actually the future "girlfriends" Relationship source mode.
A survey showed that the average woman can keep a secret no longer than two days. Women love gossip, because of its social role and status of the decision. Relatively speaking, the role of women partial "weak", but also easier insecure, so they are talkative, inquisitive, love spread. They explore the unknown secrets, the more the more security experience. From an evolutionary standpoint, it is also good to talk about gossip. In ancient times, chewing friends, relatives or neighbors of the tongue, it may play a role to ensure survival. If women always know what others are doing, gives them a chance to survive will be greater, life will be better. In other words, the more gossip will say the woman, the more likely to survive.
Supplemental reading: gossip origin
In Cantonese, gossip intention is to sow discord everywhere, rap. Entertainment news and paparazzi in order to attract readers, dig around the star's privacy widely advertised, so dig this news is called "gossip." Another argument seems much further back, to better reflect the spirit of gossip: the early years when Hong Kong porn issue, the Eight Diagrams will be affixed to the cover photo key positions, a mosaic-like effect, the private life of star magazine content of such reports it is called "gossip magazines." Another argument is that the Republic of China in order to increase some tea business in the press hall facades gossip shape stickers to put all kinds of rumors, gossip said the resulting.
(Author: Li Sheng)
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