When talking to someone, do you know when to shut up?

When talking to someone, do you know when to shut up?

Dubai: Do you know when to shut up when talking to someone? And how do you know when your conversation buddy already wants you to stop talking? These are some of the important questions researchers tried to answer in two recent experiments. It's a established fact that social connection is key to physical and mental well-being, especially in these COVID times. And having a good conversation is the main route to that end. But it turns out many of us overdo it. In new experiments, behavioural scientists led by Harvard University's Adam Mastroianni showed evidence of the propensity of people to yak way. The results show, for one, that chattiness is not really just one characteristic of certain personality types. The study suggest a point of departure from dominant thinking which often described talkativeness as nothing more than a personality trait, especially among extroverts (who are known for having great conversation skills). The two studies kept tabs of more than 1, 000 conversations in two settings: face-to-face or online, in order to gauge the estimation people engaged in a conversation have of each other. Specifically, they measured how people feel about the length of time a particular conversation should last.