How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited
Szala, Wacewicz, Placinski, Poniewierska, Schmeichel, Stefanczyk, Zywiczynski and Dunbar, Language and Cognition 17, 2025, e11. Revisits an earlier finding that about two-thirds of conversation concerns social matters; the new data put the figure closer to 85 per cent, with a more detailed categorisation of social content.
Szala, Wacewicz, Placinski, Poniewierska, Schmeichel, Stefanczyk, Zywiczynski and Dunbar, Language and Cognition 17, 2025, e11. Revisits an earlier finding that about two-thirds of conversation concerns social matters; the new data put the figure closer to 85 per cent, with a more detailed categorisation of social content.
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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. doi:10.1017/langcog.2024.54 https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.54