Gossip in Evolutionary Perspective
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- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Review of General Psychology
- Vol. 8 (2), 100-110
- https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.8.2.100
Abstract
Conversation is a uniquely human phenomenon. Analyses of freely forming conversations indicate that approximately two thirds of conversation time is devoted to social topics, most of which can be g...Keywords
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