According to a new study, people often believe that speaking less in a conversation makes them seem more likeable – but the opposite is true.
, people often believe that speaking less in a conversation makes them seem more likeable – but the opposite is true.a lot, you’ve probably been told off for being a ‘chatterbox’ at one point or another.
To come to this conclusion, the researchers from Harvard University and the University Of Virginia conducted three studies with a group of undergraduate students. The first two measured the existence of the so-called ‘reticence bias’ – aka, the idea that speaking less in a conversation makes you more likeable.
However, when the researchers moved the group onto the third study, they found that the opposite was true. After the researchers put the undergraduates into pairs, they were asked to have a seven-minute conversation in which they took turns answering a series of four prompts. A computer program told each party how long to speak – randomly assigning each participant a percentage of the conversation.
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