Interpersonal chemistry through negativity: Bonding by sharing negative attitudes about others

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use social network analysis to understand how employees' propensity to engage in positive and negative gossip is driven by their underlying relationship ties, and they find that expressive friendship ties between employees are positively related to engaging in both positive gossip, whereas instrumental workflow ties, which are less trusting than friendship ties, are related solely with positive gossip.

TL;DR: It is argued that group boundaries and social status in the informal workplace network determine who the objects of positive and negative gossip are, and that negative gossip focuses on colleagues from the own gossiper's work group.

TL;DR: The paper shows that monotone dynamical systems, due to their order-preserving solutions, are natural candidates to describe the highly predictable process of opinion forming on structurally balanced networks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use social network analysis to understand how employees' propensity to engage in positive and negative gossip is driven by their underlying relationship ties, and they find that expressive friendship ties between employees are positively related to engaging in both positive gossip, whereas instrumental workflow ties, which are less trusting than friendship ties, are related solely with positive gossip.

TL;DR: Existing evidence supports the hypothesis that the need to belong is a powerful, fundamental, and extremely pervasive motivation, and people form social attachments readily under most conditions and resist the dissolution of existing bonds.

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