The sounds of social life: A psychometric analysis of students' daily social environments and natural conversations
The sounds of social life: A psychometric analysis of students' daily social environments and natural conversations
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.84.4.857
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发表时间：
2003-04-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Pennebaker, JW
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作者：
Mehl, MR;Pennebaker, JW
52名大学生的自然对话和社会环境被跟踪了两个为期2天的时间，间隔4周，使用计算机录音机（电子激活录音机）。在参与者醒着的时候，录音机被编程为大约每12分钟记录30秒的环境声音片段。学生的社会环境和使用语言在他们的自然对话映射的基础率和时间稳定性。跨语境的一致性和说话人之间的同步性的程度进行了评估。学生们的社交世界以及他们的日常语言在不同时间是高度一致的。和背景。这项研究揭示了一个方法论上的盲点，即从一个不引人注目的观察者的角度对自然主义的社会信息进行抽样。
The natural conversations and social environments of 52 undergraduates were tracked across two 2-day periods Separated by 4 weeks using a computerized tape recorder (the Electronically Activated Recorder [EAR]). The EAR was programmed to record 30-s snippets of ambient sounds approximately every 12 min during participants' waking hours. Students' social environments and use of language in their natural conversations were mapped in terms of base rates and temporal stability. The degree of cross-context consistency and between-speaker synchrony-in language use was assessed. Students' social worlds as well as their everyday language were highly consistent across time. and context. The study sheds light on a methodological blind spot-the sampling of naturalistic social information from an unobtrusive observer's perspective.