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Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act of is also known as dishing or tattling.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gossip - Define Gossip at Dictionary.com )〕 Gossip has been researched in terms of its evolutionary psychology origins. This has found gossip to be an important means by which people can monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity.〔Sommerfeld RD, Krambeck HJ, Semmann D, Milinski M. (2007). (Gossip as an alternative for direct observation in games of indirect reciprocity ). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(44):17435-40. PMID 17947384〕 Indirect reciprocity is defined here as "I help you and somebody else helps me." Gossip has also been identified by Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary biologist, as aiding social bonding in large groups.〔Dunbar RI. (2004). (Gossip in evolutionary perspective ). Review of general psychology 8: 100-110. (abstract )〕 With the advent of the internet, gossip is now widespread on an instant basis, from one place in the world to another what used to take a long time to filter through is now instant. The term is sometimes used to specifically refer to the spreading of dirt and misinformation, as (for example) through excited discussion of scandals. Some newspapers carry "gossip columns" which detail the social and personal lives of celebrities or of élite members of certain communities. ==Etymology== The word is from Old English ''godsibb'', from ''god'' and ''sibb'', the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends. In the 16th century, the word assumed the meaning of a person, mostly a woman, one who delights in idle talk, a newsmonger, a tattler.〔OED〕 Now in the early 19th century, the term was extended from the talker to the conversation of such persons. The verb ''to gossip'', meaning "to be a gossip", first appears in Shakespeare. The term originates from the bedroom at the time of childbirth. Giving birth used to be a social (ladies only) event, in which a pregnant woman's female relatives and neighbours would gather. As with any social gathering there was chattering and this is where the term gossip came to mean talk of others.〔"If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home (Bedroom), Lucy Worsley, BBC"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「gossip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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