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This research investigates how admiration and envy influence gossip triggered by observed helping behavior in the workplace.

Admiration or envy? How observers’ reactions to workplace helping behavior influence their gossiping?

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Two studies explore how workplace helping behavior elicits positive and negative gossip via admiration and envy.

This research investigates how admiration and envy influence gossip triggered by observed helping behavior in the workplace.
Conducted a two-wave survey with 416 employees to address common method bias.
Performed a 2 × 2 scenario-based experiment with 341 participants.
Manipulated observed helping behavior and competitive relationships to test causal effects.
Admiration was found to mediate positive gossip linked to workplace helping behavior.
Envy mediated the relationship between helping behavior and negative gossip.
Competitive relationships negatively impacted the link between admiration and positive gossip.

Chen et al. (2026) studied this question.

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