Recent & Upcoming Talks

2023

I organized a symposium on the functions of gossip based on recent insights across experiments in the lab and studies in the field. The …
Sat, Jul 1, 2023 Krakow, Poland

Discussion of the definition of gossip, presentation of results from experience sampling and experimental studies for a broad audience.
Thu, May 25, 2023 Theater Concordia, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Popular Science Talk on Gossip in Everyday Life.
Tue, Mar 14, 2023 Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Discussion of the definition of gossip, presentation of results from experience sampling and experimental studies for a broad audience.
Mon, Feb 20, 2023 Theater de Veste, Delft, The Netherlands
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Presentation of results from the gossip in everyday life paper and discussion of experience sampling methods (to study gossip)/
Thu, Feb 16, 2023 Social Minds Lab, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2022

The omnipresence of workplace gossip makes understanding gossip processes imperative to understand social life in organizations. …
Fri, Oct 28, 2022 Centre for Business and Organizational Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

While existing work has shown that people do readily share gossip in anonymous lab settings, there is also evidence that gossipers may …
Fri, Sep 9, 2022 Center for Research in Social Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Gossip—a sender communicating to a receiver about an absent third party—is hypothesized to impact reputation formation, partner …
Wed, Aug 31, 2022 Center for Psychology and Evolution, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Since gossip has been shown to benefit group cooperation, gossipers should be rewarded for gossiping. In contrast, gossiping is …
Tue, Jul 19, 2022 Copenhagen, Denmark

Talk for a broader audience (in Dutch) about my work on gossip and reputation in everyday life
Thu, Jun 23, 2022 Utrecht, The Netherlands

Talk on the results of a interactive lab experiment showing how the interdependence structure in which gossip occurs drives prosocial …
Thu, Jun 23, 2022 Tilburg,The Netherlands

Gossip—a sender communicating to a receiver about an absent third party—is hypothesized to impact reputation formation, partner …
Wed, Apr 20, 2022 Woudschoten, The Netherlands

2021

Talk on the results of a interactive lab experiment showing how the interdependence structure in which gossip occurs drives prosocial …
Thu, Dec 16, 2021 Tilburg,The Netherlands

Talk on the results of a interactive lab experiment showing how the interdependence structure in which gossip occurs drives prosocial …
Thu, Nov 18, 2021 Tilburg, The Netherlands

I organized a symposium on how gossip can have both cooperative (or prosocial) or competitve (or proself) functions. The symposium …
Tue, Jun 29, 2021 Online
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Talk showing everyday gossip fits with indirect reciprocity and partner choice theories, indicating senders can use gossip to …
Wed, Jun 2, 2021 Palm Springs, CA, United States

Poster showing resutls of an online vignette study how gossip about adherence to norms regarding Coronavirus and symptoms of …
Wed, Jun 2, 2021 Palm Springs, CA, United States

Overview of my recent research on gossip through the lens of evolutionary, social, and organizational psychology
Wed, Apr 7, 2021 Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN), Online

Poster on the results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect …
Wed, Mar 24, 2021 Online
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Poster on the results of a large interactive lab experiment showing people gossip for both prosocial and proself motives. We …
Thu, Feb 11, 2021 Online

Data blitz on the results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect …
Wed, Feb 10, 2021 Online
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2020

We will present an overview of our projects with the ERC Force of Gossip Group
Mon, Dec 14, 2020 Online
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Blitz talk about the results of a large experience sampling study of gossip in daily life promoting reputation-based cooperation.
Thu, Dec 3, 2020 Online Video
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Data blitz on the results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect …
Fri, Nov 6, 2020 Online
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I organized a symposium in which we provide novel empirical insights from the lab and the field into the functions of gossip. We would …
Tue, Jun 30, 2020 Krakow, Poland

Short talk for a broader audience (in Dutch) about work on norms around COVID-19
Tue, Jun 2, 2020 Online

Poster showing everyday gossip fits with indirect reciprocity and partner choice theories, indicating senders can use gossip to …
Thu, Feb 27, 2020 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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2019

The results of a online scenario study showing that different outcomes for gossipers can lead to proself versus prosocial motives to …
Fri, Dec 13, 2019 Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Poster on the results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect …
Fri, Dec 13, 2019 Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Poster on the results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect …
Thu, Nov 14, 2019 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The Adverse Interaction between Psychopathy and Transparency on Corrupt Behavior
Tue, Sep 24, 2019 Passau, Germany
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Poster on the results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect …
Fri, Aug 23, 2019 Tilburg, The Netherlands
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The results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect reciprocity and …
Mon, May 6, 2019 08:45 Sedona Arizona, United States
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2018

The results of a large experience sampling study showing people in daily life gossip in ways that support indirect reciprocity and …
Wed, Oct 31, 2018 Lille, France
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0001

Since gossip has been shown to benefit group cooperation, gossipers should be rewarded for gossiping. In contrast, gossiping is …
Mon, Jan 1, 0001 Online

Since gossip has been shown to benefit group cooperation, gossipers should be rewarded for gossiping. In contrast, gossiping is …
Mon, Jan 1, 0001 Amsterdam, The Netherlands