Figure 1.

Likelihood of transmitting gossip by type and scenario. Values are Z-scores. Higher values indicate greater reported likelihood of transmitting that type of gossip. (a) Distributions of four gossip scores by scenario. Dotted lines are the means of each distribution. Lower and upper rugs indicate data values. (b) Estimated marginal means from a linear model of likelihood of transmitting gossip as a function of scenario (family, office), domain (family gossip, work gossip) and valence (positive gossip, negative gossip), and their interactions. Bars indicate 95% confidence intervals (CIs). See the electronic supplementary material, table S2 for regression coefficients. (Online version in colour.)