Jan 15, 2016 By: admin
Dr. Bruno Galantucci, associate professor of psychology at , and student Benjamin Langstein recently co-authored an article with Dr. Gareth Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania that will appear in the March 2016 edition of . Titled 鈥�(In)sensitivity to incoherence in human communication,鈥� the research described in the article builds on Roberts鈥� and Galantucci鈥檚 previous studies, which found that about a third of participants failed to notice when their online conversation with a designated partner was interrupted by random insertions of statements from other participants鈥� conversations. This article details two new studies Galantucci, Roberts and Langstein conducted with enhanced methodology to more precisely measure how sensitive participants were to incoherence in online conversations.