Mean Ratings for Likelihood to Gossip as a Function of Target Familiarity and Story Interest.

Note: Likelihood to gossip was measured on a scale of 1 to 4 (low to high) in Experiment 1 and on a scale of 1 to 7 (low to high) in Experiment 2. Standard deviations are in parentheses. Also shown are results of follow-up contrasts to the Familiarity×Interest interaction, including t-values and significance thresholds (p<.001 = ***, p<.01 = **, and p<.05 = *).