ABSTRACT
ORCiDs: 0000-0001-5216-1314 and 0000-0003-2344-4379
This chapter presents gossip from the perspective of applied epistemology. After a distinction between gossip and rumor, we offer an overview of psychological and cognitive gossip studies that were crucial for its epistemological framing. Relying on the definition of gossip as an epistemic synergy, the chapter shows the epistemological relationship between gossip and testimony, how gossip can be seen as a form of collective inquiry, and how it is based on the perceived relevance of news about anomalies in one’s social group.
