Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between kindness and informativity (Exp 1)
Participants saw a speaker's visible 1-5 evaluation of a listener's performance and judged whether a target evaluative utterance would be an appropriate description of that private state.
PragmaticsLanguage UnderstandingSocial Cognition
Study metadata
- Authors
- Erica J. Yoon, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank
- Source
- Yoon, E. J., Tessler, M. H., Goodman, N. D., & Frank, M. C. (2016). Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between kindness and informativity. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2771–2776).
- Slug
- yoon2016talking-exp1