Individual differences in dyadic conversational strategies: A further study

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Abstract
In a previous experiment (Roger & Schumacher, 1983), interruption rates were found to increase significantly during the second half of conversations between pairs of unacquainted subjects of the same sex who both scored high on dominance. The study described here investigated the interactive effects of both gender and dominance predispositions on turn‐taking behaviour in mixed‐sex dyads and, although there were no effects for sex on interruption rate, the interaction between time and dyadic dominance condition obtained earlier was replicated. However, women were found to use significantly more back‐channels than men across all dominance conditions. Comparing speech rate and amplitude before and during successful and unsuccessful interruption attempts showed that these indices tended to serve both turn‐taking and turn‐maintaining functions.

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