-- LONDON -- Gossip is more powerful than truth, a study showed yesterday, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary.Evidence? We don' need no steenkin' evidence.
Researchers testing students using a computer game also found gossip played an important role when people make decisions, said Ralf Sommerfeld, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, who led the study.
"We show that gossip has a strong influence ... even when participants have access to the original information as well as gossip about the same information," the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.**********
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At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, “but once you have a story like ‘I had sex with a robot, and it was great!’ appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I’d expect many people to jump on the bandwagon,” Levy said.
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