Gossip as Social Comparison

Journal Article Gossip as Social Comparison Get access Jerry M. Suls Jerry M. Suls 1Jerry M. Suls is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany and co-editor of Social Comparison Processes (Hemisphere, 1976). The author would like to thank Frederick Tesch and Howard Tennen for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. The reader is referred to Brickman and Bulman (5) who propose a somewhat similar analysis of gossip Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 1977, Pages 164–168, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1977.tb01812.x Published: 07 February 2006