Interviewer influence on durations of interviewee speech

Joseph D. Matarazzo; Morris Weitman; George Saslow; Arthur N. Wiens

doi:10.1016/S0022-5371(63)80031-6

Interviewer influence on durations of interviewee speech

Joseph D. Matarazzo
, Morris Weitman
, George Saslow
, Arthur N. Wiens

Behavioral Neuroscience

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Abstract

Two experiments are described in which the interviewer, using open-ended non-directive questions, controlled the durations of each of his own comments throughout an interview in order to study his influence on the durations of the interviewee's responses. Two durations of interviewer's utterance (5 sec versus 10 sec) were employed in counter-balanced designs. Although the interviews seemed to be typical non-directive ones, the results show the striking influence of changes in the interviewer's speaking durations on corresponding durations of speech of interviewees. For the two durations employed by E in the present study, a change in his own single units of speech from 5 sec to 10 sec was associated with a similar increase in the duration of single units of speech he elicited from S (i.e., a change from roughly 25 sec to 50 sec). Comparable changes were obtained in S's speech behavior when E changed his own interviewing style from 10-sec utterances to 5-sec utterances.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	451-458
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
Volume	1
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(63)80031-6
State	Published - May 1963

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For almost a decade, now, using a standardized interview (Matarazzo, Saslow, and Matarazzo, 1956), we have been studying the speech and silence behavior of both the interviewer and a variety of groups of interviewees. As was the case with behavior in the free interviews studied by Goldman-Eisler, 1 This investigation was supported by a research grant (M-1938) from the National Institute of Mental Health, of the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service. We wish to acknowledge the assistance of Gerald Solomon in this research.

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U. S. Public Health Service
Author National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health The Bev Hartig Huntington's Disease Foundation National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health National Institute of Mental Health

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