Eshin Jolly, post-doctoral researcher in the Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (COSAN) “ Share April 29, 2021 by Amy Olson Dartmouth study shows it creates social connections and allows for indirect learning. Eshin Jolly, left, a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (COSAN) and Luke Chang, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of the COSAN Lab, co-authored a study on gossip. PreviousNext Gossip is often considered socially taboo and dismissed for its negative tone, but a Dartmouth study illustrates some of its merits. Gossip enables social connection and enables learning about the world indirectly through other people's experiences, the researchers found.