{"id":1005,"date":"2025-07-06T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:31:33","slug":"why-your-brain-is-better-at-gossip-than-you-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/why-your-brain-is-better-at-gossip-than-you-realize\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Brain Is Better at Gossip Than You Realize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/gossip-brain-neuroscience-29395\/\" title=\"Why Your Brain Is Better at Gossip Than You Realize\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1155\" height=\"770\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"This shows a brain.\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 5px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gossiping-brain-neuroscience-1155x770-1.jpg\"><\/a>A new study reveals how humans instinctively calculate who to gossip with by weighing popularity and social distance. This cognitive process allows gossip to spread widely while minimizing the risk of it reaching the wrong person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals how humans instinctively calculate who to gossip with by weighing popularity and social distance. This cognitive process allows gossip to spread widely while minimizing the risk of it reaching the wrong person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}