1. Robert Nelson and Aaron Ben Ze'ev,Good Gossip(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994).
2. Robin Dunbar,Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).
3. The definition is simplistic in that the subject matter of the gossip, C, can be more than one person, and B can also be more than one person. These variations can be easily added to the definition. Also, gossip is a concept that refers to a number of distinct, but related, activities. The present definition is simplistic in that it attempts to characterize some central features of most of these activities. It is not mean to be, and indeed cannot be, a complete set of necessary and sufficient conditions for gossip.
4. Intentional systems in cognitive ethology: The “Panglossian paradigm” defended