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To investigate factors that affect the mutual entrainment of vocal activity rhythms, female general psychology students paired according to attitude similarity questionnaires engaged in 40-minute introductory conversations. Fourier analyses performed on speakers' on-off vocal activity demonstrated periodic oscillations in talkativeness. Although some dyads coordinated their vocal activity rhythms, speech accommodation was not predicted by attitude similarity or attraction and did not affect ratings of conversation quality. These rhythms of dialogue appear resistant to change, their behavioral momentum rooted perhaps in an underlying chronobiology.
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McGarva, A.R., Warner, R.M. Attraction and Social Coordination: Mutual Entrainment of Vocal Activity Rhythms. J Psycholinguist Res 32, 335–354 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023547703110
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