| Abstract: | Analyzed 58 naturally occurring telephone conversations between pairs of female friends, acquaintances, and strangers to investigate how intimacy is conveyed by conversational style. In comparison with strangers, friends used more implicit openings, raised more topics, were more responsive to one another (e.g., by asking more questions), and used more complex forms of closing. Acquaintances were generally more similar to strangers than they were to friends. (50 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
