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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 378, 期 1875, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0471
关键词
conversation; gap lengths; long gaps; social connection; turn taking
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When people feel connected, short gaps between turns in conversation are created. Long gaps between strangers indicate disconnection, but between friends, they signal moments of increased connection. Long gaps between strangers are perceived as awkward, while those between friends involve more genuine laughter and less topic changes, suggesting they allow space for enjoyment and mutual reflection. This study highlights the meaningful differences in turn-taking dynamics between friends and strangers.
When people feel connected they tend to respond quickly in conversation, creating short gaps between turns. But are long gaps always a sign that things have gone awry? We analysed the frequency and impact of long gaps (greater than 2 s) in conversations between strangers and between friends. As predicted, long gaps signalled disconnection between strangers. However, long gaps between friends marked moments of increased connection and friends tended to have more of them. These differences in connection were also perceived by independent raters: only the long gaps between strangers were rated as awkward, and increasingly so the longer they lasted. Finally, we show that, compared to strangers, long gaps between friends include more genuine laughter and are less likely to precede a topic change. This suggests that the gaps of friends may not function as 'gaps' at all, but instead allow space for enjoyment and mutual reflection. Together, these findings suggest that the turn-taking dynamics of friends are meaningfully different from those of strangers and may be less bound by social conventions. More broadly, this work illustrates that samples of convenience-pairs of strangers being the modal paradigm for interaction research-may not capture the social dynamics of more familiar relationships.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction'.
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