Terence Dores Cruz
Terence Dores Cruz appears on this site as first author of the 2021 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B study of gossip and reputation in everyday life.
Who they are
The work of Terence Dores Cruz reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Gossip, Reputation.
Key papers
Dores Cruz, T. D., Thielmann, I., Columbus, S., Molho, C., Wu, J., Righetti, F., de Vries, R. E., Koutsoumpis, A., van Lange, P. A. M., Beersma, B., & Balliet, D. (2021). Gossip and reputation in everyday life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1838), 20200301. What it reports: A community sample of 309 adults recorded their daily social life for ten days, logging 5,284 episodes of gossip. Senders often shared information about how cooperative others were, receivers mostly believed it and updated their view, and better reputations went with more willingness to help the person discussed.
Key ideas
Gossip: Everyday talk about who did what, the low-cost end of norm enforcement.
Reputation: What a group collectively believes about a person's conduct, updated as people share what they have seen.
Sources
- Dores Cruz, T. D., Thielmann, I., Columbus, S., Molho, C., Wu, J., Righetti, F., de Vries, R. E., Koutsoumpis, A., van Lange, P. A. M., Beersma, B., & Balliet, D. (2021). Gossip and reputation in everyday life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1838), 20200301.