Exploring Socio-Cognitive Effects of Conversational Strategy Congruence in Peer Tutoring

Conversational interaction is a dynamic process in which information is conveyed and relationships are negotiated via the use and timing of specific conversational strategies. In this work we examine similarity in use and timing of the relationship-oriented communicative strategies self-disclosure,reference to shared experience and praise, during a reciprocal peer tutoring interaction. We computationally model two kinds of similarity that...