28 Mar 2021

Do you find ending conversations hard? You're not alone

From Sunday Morning, 9:46 am on 28 March 2021

How often do you find yourself struggling to get out of conversations with people? A new study looking at 932 conversations between pairs of people has found that - perhaps unsurprisingly - most conversations don't end when the participants want them to. Study lead Adam Mastroianni from the Harvard Psychology Department explains the uncoordinated nature of conversation.

Robert Muldoon talking with Mi-Sex

Robert Muldoon talking with Mi-Sex Photo: Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand