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The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

Edited by Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek

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Draws on cutting edge insights from a multitude of disciplines, ranging from psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology and economics to philosophy, neurobiology, and computer science
Brings together some of the most eminent experts on gossip and reputation from around the world
Appeals to behavioral scientists, psychologists, and sociologists, particularly those with an interest in gossip and social status

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

Edited by Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek

Description

Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.. Academic studies have found that gossip and reputation have the power to enforce social norms, facilitate cooperation, and act as a means of social control. The key mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and destruction of reputations in everyday life is gossip - evaluative talk about absent third parties. Reputation and gossip are inseparably intertwined, but up until now have been mostly studied in isolation.

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation fills this intellectual gap, providing an integrated understanding of the foundations of gossip and reputation, as well as outlining a potential framework for future research. Volume editors Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek bring together a diverse group of researchers to analyze gossip and reputation from different disciplines, social domains, and levels of analysis. Being the first integrated and comprehensive collection of studies on both phenomena, each of the 25 chapters explores the current research on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of the gossip-reputation link in contexts as diverse as online markets, non-industrial societies, organizations, social networks, or schools.

International in scope, the volume is organized into seven sections devoted to the exploration of a different facet of gossip and reputation. Contributions from eminent experts on gossip and reputation not only help us better understand the complex interplay between two delicate social mechanisms, but also sketch the contours of a long term research agenda by pointing to new problems and newly emerging cross-disciplinary solutions.

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

Edited by Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek

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List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Gossip and Reputation: A Multidisciplinary Research Program, Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek
PART I DISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS
2. Gossip, Reputation, and Sustainable Cooperation: Sociological Foundations, Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek
3. Human Sociality and Psychological Foundations, Nicholas Emler
4. Reputation in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology, Gloria Origgi
5. Gossip, Reputation, and Language, Haykaz Mangardich and Stanka A. Fitneva
6. Gossip in Ethnographic Perspective, Niko Besnier
PART II INDIVIDUAL COGNITION AND EMOTION
7. Neuroscientific Methods, Riccardo Boero
8. Gossip and Reputation in Childhood, Gordon P. D. Ingram
9. Gossip and Emotion, Elena Martinescu, Onne Janssen, and Bernard A. Nijstad
PART III STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCIES
10. Gossip as a Social Skill, Francis T. McAndrew
11. Gossip and Reputation in Social Dilemmas, Manfred Milinski
12. Reputation and Gossip in Game Theory, Charles Roddie
13. Agent-Based Computational Models of Reputation and Status Dynamics, André Grow and Andreas Flache
PART IV EVOLUTION, COMPETITION, AND GENDER
14. Gossip and Reputation in Small-scale Societies: A View from Evolutionary Anthropology, Christopher Boehm
15. Gossip, Reputation, and Friendship in Within-group Competition: An Evolutionary Perspective
Nicole H. Hess and Edward H. Hagen
16. Women's Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: An Evolutionary Approach to Sex and Discrimination, Adam Davis, Tracy Vaillancourt, Steven Arnocky, and Robert Doyel
PART V POWER AND STATUS
17. Gossip and Reputation in the Media: How Celebrities Emerge and Evolve by Means of Mass-Mediated Gossip
Charlotte J. S. De Backer, Hilde Van den Bulck, Maryanne L. Fisher, and Gaëlle Ouvrein
18. On the Nature of Gossip, Reputation, and Power Inequality, Sally Farley
19. Gossip and Reputation in Adolescent Networks, Dorottya Kisfalusi, Károly Takács, and Judit Pál
PART VI MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND NETWORKS
20. Trust and Reputation in Markets, Andreas Diekmann and Wojtek Przepiorka
21. The Economics of Gossip and Collective Reputation, Federico Boffa and Stefano Castriota
22. Antecedents and Consequences of Gossip in Work Groups, Bianca Beersma, Gerben A. van Kleef, and Maria T. M. Dijkstra
23. Gossip and Reputation in Social Networks, Lea Ellwardt
PART VII THE WEB, COMPUTERS, AND TECHNOLOGY
24. Gossip and Reputation in Computational Systems, Jordi Sabater-Mir
25. Online Reputation Systems, Chris Snijders and Uwe Matzat
26. Gossip, Internet-Based Reputation Systems, and Governance, Lucio Picci
Index

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

Edited by Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek

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Author Information

Francesca Giardini is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Groningen.

Rafael Wittek is Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen.

Contributors:

Steven Arnocky, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Nipissing University, Canada
Bianca Beersma, Department of Organization Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Niko Besnier, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Christopher Boehm, Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology, University of Southern California
Riccardo Boero, Scientist, Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Federico Boffa, Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
Stefano Castriota, Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
Adam Davis, PhD candidate, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Charlotte J.S. De Backer, Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp
Andreas Diekmann, Professor of Sociology, ETH Zurich
Maria T. M. Dijkstra, Department of Organization Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robert Doyel, retired U.S. Circuit Court Judge
Lea Ellwardt, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne
Nicholas Emler, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Surrey
Sally Farley, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Baltimore
Maryanne L. Fisher, Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp
Stanka A. Fitneva, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University Canada
Andreas Flache, Department of Theoretical Sociology, University of Groningen
André Grow, Centre for Sociological Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Edward H. Hagen, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
Nicole H. Hess, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
Gordon P. D. Ingram, Department of Psychology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Onne Janssen, Department of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen
Dorottya Kisfalusi, Research Center for Educational and Network Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Haykaz Mangardich, PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada
Elena Martinescu, Department of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen
Uwe Matzat, Human-Technology Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology
Francis T. McAndrew, Department of Psychology, Knox College
Manfred Milinski, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Bernard A. Nijstad, Department of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen
Gloria Origgi, Senior Researcher, CNRS, Institut Nicod - Ecole Normale Supérieure-EHESS
Gaëlle Ouvrein, Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp
Judit Pál, Research Center for Educational and Network Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Lucio Picci, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Bologna
Wojtek Przepiorka, Department of Sociology / ICS, Utrecht University
Charles Roddie, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Jordi Sabater-Mir, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC - Spanish National Research Council
Chris Snijders, Human-Technology Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology
Károly Takács, Research Center for Educational and Network Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Tracy Vaillancourt, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Hilde Van den Bulck, Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp
Gerben A. van Kleef, Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam