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Talking Less during Social Interactions Predicts Enjoyment: A Mobile Sensing Pilot Study

Can we predict which conversations are enjoyable without hearing the words that are spoken? A total of 36 participants used a mobile app, My Social Ties, which collected data about 473 conversations that the participants engaged in as they went about their daily lives. We tested whether conversation...

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Autores principales: Sandstrom, Gillian M., Tseng, Vincent Wen-Sheng, Costa, Jean, Okeke, Fabian, Choudhury, Tanzeem, Dunn, Elizabeth W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4954675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27438475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158834
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description Can we predict which conversations are enjoyable without hearing the words that are spoken? A total of 36 participants used a mobile app, My Social Ties, which collected data about 473 conversations that the participants engaged in as they went about their daily lives. We tested whether conversational properties (conversation length, rate of turn taking, proportion of speaking time) and acoustical properties (volume, pitch) could predict enjoyment of a conversation. Surprisingly, people enjoyed their conversations more when they spoke a smaller proportion of the time. This pilot study demonstrates how conversational properties of social interactions can predict psychologically meaningful outcomes, such as how much a person enjoys the conversation. It also illustrates how mobile phones can provide a window into everyday social experiences and well-being.
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spelling pubmed-49546752016-08-08 Talking Less during Social Interactions Predicts Enjoyment: A Mobile Sensing Pilot Study Sandstrom, Gillian M. Tseng, Vincent Wen-Sheng Costa, Jean Okeke, Fabian Choudhury, Tanzeem Dunn, Elizabeth W. PLoS One Research Article Can we predict which conversations are enjoyable without hearing the words that are spoken? A total of 36 participants used a mobile app, My Social Ties, which collected data about 473 conversations that the participants engaged in as they went about their daily lives. We tested whether conversational properties (conversation length, rate of turn taking, proportion of speaking time) and acoustical properties (volume, pitch) could predict enjoyment of a conversation. Surprisingly, people enjoyed their conversations more when they spoke a smaller proportion of the time. This pilot study demonstrates how conversational properties of social interactions can predict psychologically meaningful outcomes, such as how much a person enjoys the conversation. It also illustrates how mobile phones can provide a window into everyday social experiences and well-being. Public Library of Science 2016-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4954675/ /pubmed/27438475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158834 Text en © 2016 Sandstrom et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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