Gossip: More than just trash talk

High Stakes Require More Than Just Talk: What to Do About Corruption in Health Systems; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

Reluctance to talk about corruption is an important barrier to action. Yet the stakes of not addressing corruption in the health sector are higher than ever. Corruption includes wrongdoing by individuals, but it is also a problem of weak institutions captured by political interests, and underfunded, unreliable administrative systems and healthcare delivery models. We ur...

More than just vanilla.

More than just big ears

To the non-specialist, large ears in elephants used to mean African, small ears, Indian. But to taxonomists African elephants have long posed a more complex puzzle. During the nineteenth century, it was fashionable for wealthy trophy hunters to assign their own names to species they had shot destined for the museums of Europe. At least 18 elephant subspecies were claimed following this fashion....

EHPnet: More Than Just Unleaded

Running head : TRASH TALK EXPERIENCES Trash Talk Experiences of College Athletes

While there has been considerable controversy about trash talk in sport, there have been very few empirical studies of this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to investigate the trash talk experiences of collegiate athletes. Surveys were completed by 414 male and female NCAA Division I and Division III athletes. Athletes responded to questions about how frequently they used trash talk, h...