Long gaps between turns are awkward for strangers but not for friends

Templeton, Emma; Chang, Luke J.; Reynolds, Elizabeth A.; LeBeaumont, Marie D. Cone; Wheatley, Thalia

doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0471

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“…Furthermore, the current study only tested dyads of acquainted participants, who had shared knowledge coming into the conversations. How their level of connection impacted the turn‐taking and the role of gestures is an interesting question for future research, given that there is some evidence that friendship and connection may impact turn‐taking timing (Coates, 1994; Templeton, Chang, Reynolds, Cone LeBeaumont, & Wheatley, 2022, 2023). Moreover, how the presence of shared knowledge may affect these processes could be studied by manipulating whether the knowledge participants talk about is shared or not.…”

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Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech

ter Bekke,

Drijvers,

Holler

2024

Cognitive Science

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During face‐to‐face conversation, transitions between speaker turns are incredibly fast. These fast turn exchanges seem to involve next speakers predicting upcoming semantic information, such that next turn planning can begin before a current turn is complete. Given that face‐to‐face conversation also involves the use of communicative bodily signals, an important question is how bodily signals such as co‐speech hand gestures play into these processes of prediction and fast responding. In this corpus study, we found that hand gestures that depict or refer to semantic information started before the corresponding information in speech, which held both for the onset of the gesture as a whole, as well as the onset of the stroke (the most meaningful part of the gesture). This early timing potentially allows listeners to use the gestural information to predict the corresponding semantic information to be conveyed in speech. Moreover, we provided further evidence that questions with gestures got faster responses than questions without gestures. However, we found no evidence for the idea that how much a gesture precedes its lexical affiliate (i.e., its predictive potential) relates to how fast responses were given. The findings presented here highlight the importance of the temporal relation between speech and gesture and help to illuminate the potential mechanisms underpinning multimodal language processing during face‐to‐face conversation.

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confidence: 99%

Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech

ter Bekke,

Drijvers,

Holler

2024

Cognitive Science

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“…Turn-taking dynamics were also studied by Templeton et al [38] in a large-scale examination of 261 stranger dyads and 65 friend dyads having short conversations which were later rated for social connectedness. While stranger pairs showed the common effect that short gaps at turn-taking lead to more positive ratings of social connection, this was not true in friend pairs.…”

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Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction

Hamilton

Holler

2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Face-to-face interaction is core to human sociality and its evolution, and provides the environment in which most of human communication occurs. Research into the full complexities that define face-to-face interaction requires a multi-disciplinary, multi-level approach, illuminating from different perspectives how we and other species interact. This special issue showcases a wide range of approaches, bringing together detailed studies of naturalistic social-interactional behaviour with larger scale analyses for generalization, and investigations of socially contextualized cognitive and neural processes that underpin the behaviour we observe. We suggest that this integrative approach will allow us to propel forwards the science of face-to-face interaction by leading us to new paradigms and novel, more ecologically grounded and comprehensive insights into how we interact with one another and with artificial agents, how differences in psychological profiles might affect interaction, and how the capacity to socially interact develops and has evolved in the human and other species. This theme issue makes a first step into this direction, with the aim to break down disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing the value of illuminating the many facets of face-to-face interaction. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction’.

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“…Teleconference conversations tend to be somewhere in the middle of the two (Boland et al, 2022). Within a particular data set, pauses of various lengths can be counted as turnlevel features (Templeton et al, 2022(Templeton et al, , 2023. Some researchers simply dichotomize each turn into pause or no pause using a threshold and show that results are robust over a range of thresholds (e.g., Curhan et al, 2022).…”

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A Practical Guide to Conversation Research: How to Study What People Say to Each Other

Yeomans,

Boland,

Collins

et al. 2023

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

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Conversation—a verbal interaction between two or more people—is a complex, pervasive, and consequential human behavior. Conversations have been studied across many academic disciplines. However, advances in recording and analysis techniques over the last decade have allowed researchers to more directly and precisely examine conversations in natural contexts and at a larger scale than ever before, and these advances open new paths to understand humanity and the social world. Existing reviews of text analysis and conversation research have focused on text generated by a single author (e.g., product reviews, news articles, and public speeches) and thus leave open questions about the unique challenges presented by interactive conversation data (i.e., dialogue). In this article, we suggest approaches to overcome common challenges in the workflow of conversation science, including recording and transcribing conversations, structuring data (to merge turn-level and speaker-level data sets), extracting and aggregating linguistic features, estimating effects, and sharing data. This practical guide is meant to shed light on current best practices and empower more researchers to study conversations more directly—to expand the community of conversation scholars and contribute to a greater cumulative scientific understanding of the social world.

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Long gaps between turns are awkward for strangers but not for friends

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech

Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech

Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction

A Practical Guide to Conversation Research: How to Study What People Say to Each Other

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