ExperimentUS and UK samples, including 102 first-year students followed across an academic year
Conversation science
What people expect from a deep conversation compared with what happens, and how talk is built turn by turn.
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People expect strangers to care less about what they disclose than the strangers do.
People underrate how much strangers want to talk about things that matter.
People underestimate how much conversation partners like them; whether hearing one’s impact corrects that hasn’t been tested.
In the catalogue
- The Liking Gap in Conversations: Do People Like Us More Than We Think?
- Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation.
ExperimentStudents, working adults, community volunteers and online participants across the experiments