The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation provides an integrated and comprehensive understanding of both phenomena. Through twenty-five chapters from eminent experts, the Handbook explores current research on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of the gossip-reputation link in contexts as diverse as online markets, non-industrial societies, modern firms, social networks, and schools.

• List of Contributors


• 1: Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek: Introduction: Gossip and Reputation: A Multidisciplinary Research Program


• PART I DISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS


• 2: Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek: Gossip, Reputation, and Sustainable Cooperation: Sociological Foundations


• 3: Nicholas Emler: Human Sociality and Psychological Foundations


• 4: Gloria Origgi: Reputation in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology


• 5: Haykaz Mangardich and Stanka A. Fitneva: Gossip, Reputation, and Language


• 6: Niko Besnier: Gossip in Ethnographic Perspective


• PART II INDIVIDUAL COGNITION AND EMOTION


• 7: Riccardo Boero: Neuroscientific Methods


• 8: Gordon P. D. Ingram: Gossip and Reputation in Childhood


• 9: Elena Martinescu, Onne Janssen, and Bernard A. Nijstad: Gossip and Emotion


• PART III STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCIES


• 10: Francis T. McAndrew: Gossip as a Social Skill


• 11: Manfred Milinski: Gossip and Reputation in Social Dilemmas


• 12: Charles Roddie: Reputation and Gossip in Game Theory


• 13: André Grow and Andreas Flache: Agent-Based Computational Models of Reputation and Status Dynamics


• PART IV EVOLUTION, COMPETITION, AND GENDER


• 14: Christopher Boehm: Gossip and Reputation in Small-scale Societies: A View from Evolutionary Anthropology


• 15: Gossip, Reputation, and Friendship in Within-group Competition: An Evolutionary Perspective




• 16: Adam Davis, Tracy Vaillancourt, Steven Arnocky, and Robert Doyel: Women's Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: An Evolutionary Approach to Sex and Discrimination


• PART V POWER AND STATUS


• 17: Charlotte J. S. De Backer, Hilde Van den Bulck, Maryanne L. Fisher, and Gaëlle Ouvrein: Gossip and Reputation in the Media: How Celebrities Emerge and Evolve by Means of Mass-Mediated Gossip


• 18: Sally Farley: On the Nature of Gossip, Reputation, and Power Inequality


• 19: Dorottya Kisfalusi, Károly Takács, and Judit Pál: Gossip and Reputation in Adolescent Networks


• PART VI MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND NETWORKS


• 20: Andreas Diekmann and Wojtek Przepiorka: Trust and Reputation in Markets


• 21: Federico Boffa and Stefano Castriota: The Economics of Gossip and Collective Reputation


• 22: Bianca Beersma, Gerben A. van Kleef, and Maria T. M. Dijkstra: Antecedents and Consequences of Gossip in Work Groups


• 23: Lea Ellwardt: Gossip and Reputation in Social Networks


• PART VII THE WEB, COMPUTERS, AND TECHNOLOGY


• 24: Jordi Sabater-Mir: Gossip and Reputation in Computational Systems


• 25: Chris Snijders and Uwe Matzat: Online Reputation Systems


• 26: Lucio Picci: Gossip, Internet-Based Reputation Systems, and Governance


• Index

Francesca Giardini is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Groningen.
Rafael Wittek is Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen.