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Thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> you talk about the attributes of these rumors. you give four examples, information states that people share, considered of interest to others that are not verified and, perhaps most importantly, that help people deal with ambiguity or threat. talk to us about that and the idea that rumoring is at some level a coping mechanism for us. >> sure. people are interactive, social creatures. we don't like things that are unexplained. we like events that make sense to us. and it's a very natural coping mechanism that we have to try and figure things out and to ...