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A Network Model of Gossip Assessment: The Santa Fe Gossip Group

This article explores a network model of gossip assessment, focusing on the Santa Fe Gossip Group. Drawing from various disciplines including anthropology, biology, computer science, psychology, mathematics, sociology, and physics, the study examines the manipulative potential of gossip and strategies for sorting honesty from bogus gossip. The article also discusses the evolution of cognition and proposes future directions for research in this field.

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A Network Model of Gossip Assessment: The Santa Fe Gossip Group

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  1. Gossiping about complex systems:A network model of gossip assessment The Santa Fe Gossip Group

  2. The Santa Fe Gossip Group Anthropology Biology Computer Science Psychology Mathematics Sociology Physics

  3. Dunbar et al. (1997) Human Nature 8:231

  4. Manipulative potential of gossip Sommerfield et al. 2007 PNAS104:17437 How to sort honesty from bogus gossip? (Human Nature 2006 quote)

  5. “The scientific literature on gossip remains miniscule” -David Sloan Wilson, p. 347, in: The evolution of cognition

  6. Future directions • Explore fitness across different network distributions • Dynamically change link strengths • Individuals can consult the target to get the ‘real’ story • Subset of nodes temporarily separated (random or based on connection strength—who hangs out with whom) • Add more strategies…

  7. A gossip tournament:may the best gossiper win…

  8. Real gossip propagation

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