Brain Week: Gossip stimulates the happiness hormone. Scientific studies show that gossiping releases oxytocin, the hormone of attachment and pleasure, in our brain.
Gossip promotes attachment between the people who will exchange it. And this attachment allows us to create social bonds and stronger relationships. For the record, the very first documented gossip dates back to 1,500 years BC. This piece of gossip, engraved on a stone from Mesopotamia, reveals the affair between a married woman and a powerful man of the time.