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Widespread Misperception of Long-Term Attitude Change
Just published; full post coming soon.
Do Conversations End When People Want Them To?
Short answer: no.
People spend most of their days talking to other people (at least, they did before the pandemic happened). How do people know when to stop talking? They don’t: most conversations end when neither person wants it to end. It turns out that people almost never want to talk for the same amount of time and people are really bad at guessing when their partner wants to go, which turns conversations into complicated coordination games in which both sides typically lose.
Published in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/10/e2011809118
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The Liking Gap in Groups and Teams
People underestimate how much other people like them.
People underestimate how much they’re liked by the people they meet. Gus Cooney, Erica Boothby, Andrew Reece, and I show that this also happens when people meet in a group. Plus, the “liking gap” continues to show up in groups of people working together, and you can even see signs of it in the way people talk about each other.
The Many Minds Problem
Adding another person to a conversation changes everything about it.
Conversation with one other person is hard enough. Conversation with two or more people may be a whole different ballgame. Gus Cooney, Nicole Abi-Esber, Alison Wood Brooks, and I explain how the stuff we know about conversation might go out the window when you add another person to the mix, and what we might find when we do.
The Many Minds Problem: Disclosure in Dyadic vs. Group Conversation