Gossip as Social Comparison
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Communication
- Vol. 27 (1) , 164-168
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1977.tb01812.x
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