"As well as their breath, body odor, speech patterns, and the way they walked, not to mention general discussion based on the perception that the participant who had left the room was most likely a world-class prick."
According to the data, 89 percent of volunteers appeared to listen attentively to the subject's receding footsteps, 47 percent raised their eyebrows and smirked as the subject left, and 23 percent mouthed the words "what the fuck" to others in the room as the door was closing, which usually triggered bouts of stifled giggling
Perhaps most exciting was the 9 percent of volunteers who silently flipped the subject off as they left the room,
Phillips said the lower-order cognitive functions responsible for knee-jerk gossiping may have played an ancient role in survival by encouraging those in proximity to band together.

LOL

@ Willhelm.....even as adult we do stuipd things

I'm confused. The Onion is a news-spoof site. My LOL comment is because I found it a humorous play on the fact that sociology, in my opinion, is the 'science' of finding the facts about society that one wants to find. Thus it is not really a science, but materialist propaganda.

The ironic part is, this is probably closer to accurate than even they know. You know how we are.

this is probably closer to accurate than even they know.

At least in the sense that garbage is passed off as fact and the bigoted assumptions can be used to expess a "truth" even when we are talking, here, about a freaking joke. This is a perfect example of many problems we have in our digustingly ignorant society. We might as well be talking about how to end the 'smart-ass' tactics of rabbits because the evidence presented by Bugs Bunny.

dakotayii, Please do not misunderstand my point. I do more stupid things as an adult than I ever did as a child. I just think this clip is funny. Thanks for posting.

@ willhelm..........Don't feel you have to apologizes I don't feel insulted . I think the clip is funny too. I think in most office there is a lot of vicious gossip going around.

Ok i'm going to make a comment and then leave, you better not talk about me.

*LOL* @Brimstone.

'LOL' @ Brimstone - I am sorry to inform you that I am one of the 9 percent.......Just kidding

*stifled giggling*

@ TN - you are one of us too ,HUH

Well at least I found out that this is an onion peel before I admitted that I have often in the past stayed in a group discussion past the time I wanted to leave, simply because I was afraid people would talk about me if I left.

That's a good one

Might want to have that self-esteem looked at.

Wow Slwir I have to hide now

However I am who I am and I'd rather be me than anyone else, so that is probably about as good as it's going to get.

Pop to that......... My motto is if you don't like it - go away, I live in a city where you take things with a grain of salt, the only person who I believe at the end of the day is my clients ( the one that pays me to believe in them) and my family- my wife and two dogs...

Cheers Yance

However I am who I am and I'd rather be me than anyone else, so that is probably about as good as it's going to get.

Now that is more like it!

However I am who I am and I'd rather be me than anyone else, so that is probably about as good as it's going to get

I would like to dedicate my pop to this statement

dakotayii, feeling good and secured! Good for you.
i saw a card that said "i don't repeat gossip...so listen carefully!

@ sidegik...........OMG what now I forgot......