Never Say No... How the Brain Interprets the Pregnant Pause in Conversation.

In conversation, negative responses to invitations, requests, offers, and the like are more likely to occur with a delay-conversation analysts talk of them as dispreferred. Here we examine the contrastive cognitive load 'yes' and 'no' responses make, either when relatively fast (...

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Main Authors: Sara Bögels, Kobin H Kendrick, Stephen C Levinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4689543?pdf=render