Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between kindness and informativity (Exp 3)
Participants saw a speaker's visible 1-5 evaluation and utterance, then rated how likely it was that the speaker aimed to be honest, nice, and mean.
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-exp3