The functions of active listening responses
| Autor: | Carsta Simon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Time Factors Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Young Adult Behavioral Neuroscience Humans Interpersonal Relations 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Active listening Conversation 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Social Behavior media_common 060201 languages & linguistics Verbal Behavior Communication 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Duration (music) 0602 languages and literature Auditory Perception Female Animal Science and Zoology Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Processes. 157:47-53 |
| ISSN: | 0376-6357 |
| Popis: | In the literature, an interlocutor’s active listening responses such as “hmh” are often defined as “continuers”, serving to prolong another interlocutor’s turn. However, to date, experiments on the effect of non-interruptive active listening responses on a conversational partner’s duration of talk have given contradictory results. Studies have shown one interlocutor’s active listening responses to correlate sometimes with longer and sometimes with shorter turns of another interlocutor. To investigate this contradiction, the effect of a confederate’s active listening on German participants’ (N = 32) duration of speech was tested individually in an experiment simulating two significant conversational contexts extracted from the literature: explaining and socializing. The effect of active listening responses on the duration of talk interacted significantly with the conversational context. When socializing, the confederate’s active listening led participants to talk longer. Whereas in the explanatory context, this effect was absent, indicating that the function of active listening responses is context-dependent. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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