TY - JOUR
AU - Pennebaker, James W.
AB - Three experiments were conducted to determine the psychometric properties of language in dyadic interactions. Using text-analysis, it was possible to assess the degree to which people coordinate their word use in natural conversations. In Experiments 1 (n = 130) and 2 (n = 32), college students interacted in dyadic conversations in laboratory-based private Internet chat rooms. Experiment 3 analyzed the official transcripts of the Watergate tapes involving the dyadic interactions between President Richard Nixon and his aids H. R. Haldeman, John Erlichman, & John Dean. The results of the three studies offer substantial evidence that individuals in dyadic interactions exhibit linguistic style matching (LSM) on both the conversation level as well as on a turn-by-turn level. Furthermore, LSM is unrelated to ratings of the quality of the interaction by both participants and judges. We propose that a coordination-engagement hypothesis is a better description of linguistic behaviors than the coordination-rapport hypothesis that has been proposed in the nonverbal literature.
TI - Linguistic Style Matching in Social Interaction
JF - Journal of Language and Social Psychology
DO - 10.1177/026192702237953
DA - 2002-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/linguistic-style-matching-in-social-interaction-colv2p6DlD
SP - 337
EP - 360
VL - 21
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -