[Air-l] a ps on hedges

[Bonnie Nardi]

This discussion has been very helpful and I appreciate the nuanced 
points people are making.

Best wishes,

--

Bonnie

On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Nancy Baym wrote:

>>> People hesitate for many reasons -- they are lying, they are unsure 
>>> of
>>>  what they are saying, they are not sure whether they should reveal
>>>  something, they are searching for the words that say what they mean,
>>>  they have never articulated the answer to a question someone (such 
>>> as
>>>  an interviewer) asks. The problem is is figuring out which reason
>>>  applies in a given situation.
>>
>> Again, that's a claim requiring empirical justification. As the
>> deception literature shows, there are lots of things we think we know
>> about the signs of deception that turn out to be myths, and I think
>> that verbal hesitation is one of those mythical symptoms.
>
>
> There is empirical research showing that response latency and longer
> pauses are associated with deception (unlike making eye contact).
> However, as this thread has pointed out, there are many other things
> with which pauses are associated and I would caution a researcher
> against assuming any particular one to be the case without additional
> sources of evidence for the claim.
>
> Nancy
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Bonnie A. Nardi
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