An approach to social flexibility: Congruency effects during spontaneous word-by-word interaction.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive flexibility is the ability to switch between different concepts or to adapt goal-directed behavior in a changing environment. Although, cognitive research on this ability has long been focused on the individual mind, it is becoming increasingly clear that cognitive flexibility plays a central role in our social life. This is particularly evident in turn-taking in verbal conversation, where cognitive flexibility of the individual becomes part of social flexibility in the dyadic interaction. In this work, we introduce a model that reveals different parameters that explain how people flexibly handle unexpected events in verbal conversation. In order to study hypotheses derived from the model, we use a novel experimental approach in which thirty pairs of participants engaged in a wor

SUBMITTER: Schwenke D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7313956 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature