Conversational linguistic features inform social-relational inference

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 6, 2025

Whether it is the first day of school or a new job, individuals often find themselves in situations where they must learn structure existing social relationships. However, mechanisms through which evaluate strength and nature these relationships - social-relational inference remain unclear. We posit that linguistic features conversations may help be associated with inference. Leveraging naturalistic behavioral experiment (57 adults; 34,735 observations), participants watched mid-season episode reality television show evaluated observed dyadic between contestants. employed novel person- stimulus-focused approaches to: (1) investigate similarity participants, (2) examine association distinct inference, (3) explore relationship early season conversation later perceived formation. found high pairwise participant response across two relational subtypes (friendship, rivalry), associations judgments features, including semantic similarity, sentiment, clout, no evidence an friendship These findings suggest conversational content both potential mechanism promising avenue for future research.

Language: Английский

Cortico-hippocampal networks carry information about characters and their relationships in an extended narrative

Neuropsychologia, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 191, P. 108729 - 108729

Published: Nov. 10, 2023

Language: Английский