Just how aligned are interlocutors' representations?
Conversational partners' representations may be less aligned than they appear even when interlocutors believe they have successfully understood each other, as data from a series of experiments on surveys about facts and behaviors suggest. Although the goal of a mechanistic psychology of dialogue is laudable, the ultimate model is likely to require far greater specification of individual and contextual variability.
Schober
Michael F
MF
Department of Psychology, F330, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10003 schober@newschool.edu http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schober.