self-reassurance
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Conversation.
aggressive mimicry, anxiety carrier state, arousal, avoidance, biological advantage, bluster, child, children, circumlocution, clear the head, CNV, competitiveness, contingent negative variation, conversation, conversational narcissism, deception, Doppler effect, ensonification, errors of judgement, errors of judgment, flannel, Gilbertian mimicry, human host, human parasite, implicature, interview technique, irritability, jitter, loneliness, malfeasance, misrepresentation, mobile ‘phone, monologue, mutual regression, Nash equilibrium, networking, obsessionality, pets, plausible deniability, pregnant pause, prevarication, pseudo-conversation, regression., seduction, self-reassurance, self-stimulation, sexual promise, shift response, sleep, soliloquy, stimulus-independent thought, support response, the centre of attention, The cortical generators of the contingent negative variation in humans: a study with subdural electrodes, the sound of her own voice, the sound of his own voice, the sound of one’s own voice, thinking out loud, tit for tat, verbiageConversation normally starts with an alerting signal, so as to engage the attention of the intended collocutor. Absence of the alerting signal conveys that this is not going to be a conversation. Conversation normally includes listening pauses, the absence of which indicates that this is not a conversation: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”…
To be or not to be. 