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According to recent research published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, "Do status expectations affect how we interpret interruption in conversation? Two experiments examined how interrupters and their targets are perceived in same- and mixed-gender dyads. In Experiment 1, participants listened to a brief audiotaped conversation in which one person interrupted the other five times."

"In Experiment 2, four confederates (two men and two women) systematically interrupted naive participants while discussing an article. In general, interrupters gained in status and targets of interruption lost status. In addition, participants who were interrupted rated themselves as less influential than those who were not interrupted. As expected, interrupters, especially female interrupters, were liked less than those who did not interrupt," wrote S.D. Farley and colleagues, University of Baltimore (see also ...

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