Anna Szala

Anna Szala

Anna Szala appears on this site as first author of the 2025 Language and Cognition study of how much everyday conversation is social.

Who they are

The work of Anna Szala reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Gossip.

Key papers

Szala, A., Wacewicz, S., Placinski, M., Poniewierska, A. E., Schmeichel, A., Stefanczyk, M. M., Zywiczynski, P., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2025). How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited. Language and Cognition, 17, e11. What it reports: Revisits an earlier estimate that about two-thirds of conversation concerns social matters, using a more detailed coding of social content; the new data put the share closer to 85 per cent.

Key ideas

Gossip: Everyday talk about who did what, the low-cost end of norm enforcement.

Sources

  1. Szala, A., Wacewicz, S., Placinski, M., Poniewierska, A. E., Schmeichel, A., Stefanczyk, M. M., Zywiczynski, P., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2025). How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited. Language and Cognition, 17, e11.