Why we love to gossip Humans have a powerful drive to know about other people’s lives. It’s the fascination — often seasoned liberally with schadenfreude — behind a welter of magazines and television programs that have made celebrity gossip a more than $3 billion industry. “Your life may be more glamorous than mine,” we might think as we scan the […]
The Independent It’s 2024. Why are we still pitting women against each other? Speaking to The Independent, Catherine Fairfield, a postdoctoral associate at Northeastern University who teaches women’s studies courses, acknowledged that we follow these romances because it’s just like the everyday gossip in our lives, where we love to hear what others think about each other and how they interact.