Rumors

article “Anatomy of a Rumor: It Flies on Fear” that anxiety is the driving factor for the spread of rumors, and that people who fall victim to them should use contrary evidence to disprove the rumor. There are too many examples of rumors to list, but Goleman selects a few to demonstrate the ample variety in which rumors come. Goleman explains that “rumors are a kind of opportunistic information virus” (487), which spread because of the anxiety they evoke in people. Rumors hold some level of emotional

If you ever went to middle school then you know that rumors and gossip are part of the daily routine of most of the students. Most of the time these rumors aren’t nice, and the gossip is mostly negative and heavily opinionated, yet many take part. Almost everyone, at one point, has started a rumor about someone else, had a rumor made up about themselves, or obligingly gave into the spread of rumors. The thing about rumors is that no one really has any factual evidence for them, yet people believe

Nicholas DiFonzo explains, “rumors are unverified bits of information”. Rumors are imprinted on everyday life and are something all individual deal with. However, one must wonder, why do they start and what causes them to spread so violently? Various articles and experiments may have the answers to these common questions. In fact, research has shown that rumors disperse out of response to fear and are mostly spread by word of mouth. A psychologist during World War II, wrote an article to explain

The Contagious Rumors “I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.”-Venus Williams. People spread rumors because they feel that it will interest them more than the truth. In some ways, creating rumors can give people a reason to for them to believe that something is more flared than what the actual truth is. In other words, this means that people elaborate and stretch the actual truth in a situation, rather than believing the astounding truth. Often times, this helps people compress the unknown

The Understanding of a Rumor Synopsis. One of the more interesting readings in Behrens and Rosen’s Wrting and Reading Across the Curriculum was “A Psychology of Rumor” By Robert H. Knapp. His major point was the understanding of the process and the reasoning behind rumors. A rumor can be classified as a special case of informal social communications that include myth, legend, and current humor. Rumors have three basic characteristics to them. The first is mode transmission which is usually done

In society, rumors are seen as a common occurence amongst people. It is valid to say that every individual who has come of age, has encountered rumors at some point. The creation and popularity of social media has only facilitated this phenomenon more in ways unimaginable. Through social media, people are able to transmit rumors more quickly amongst themselves. From a more in depth perspective, the people who spread rumors do not know that they are doing such a thing. The fact that the people who

Rumor Synthesis Did you hear the awful news? Well whatever the news is, you will probably hear it eventually. Rumors and gossip can spread in numerous ways and for a number of reasons, the effects can vary depending on the rumor and it can be difficult to stop and or change the effects of a rumor. The most important concept to understand is what a rumor is, knowing this is required before one can learn about these other ideas. There are many different ways to define a rumor, but the ones

Rumors are something that we all know are constantly spreading everyday; however, most of us might not exactly know the specific effects that they can and do have on our social lives. In this article by Jesse Singal titled “How To Fight a Rumor” he writes to try and explain the effects that rumors have and different methods that some people have used to try and counter them. His thesis is that in order to combat rumors we must first learn about the inner workings of rumors themselves. He does this

interaction breeds social communication incidents such as gossip and rumors. Undoubtedly, people participate in gossip as a nearly monolithic whole, bending and twisting truthful accounts of events in order to berate enemies and elevate the social status of friends. Despite the negativity associated with gossip, the communication method carries both positive and negative societal capabilities. Closely correlated with gossip, rumors act in a similar manner but behave much more emotionally. Often, the

gossip is one of the worst problems that can happen in the workforce. When an employee tries to spread a rumor or something that an employee did, it can have a negative effect in the work space. There are multiple ways that office gossip can happen and there are ways to remedy the situation as well. Unfortunately, office gossip is something that cannot be avoided as it is human nature to bring rumors into the office. There are, however, ways to avoid the situation. Most workers would choose to avoid