Digital connection, real bonding: Brief online chats boost interpersonal closeness regardless of the conversational topic

Digital connection, real bonding: Brief online chats boost interpersonal closeness regardless of the conversational topic

This study explores how the quality of brief dyadic written exchanges (lasting under 5 min) on a virtual platform and the nature of the conversational topic (abstract or concrete), influences physical, interpersonal, and psychological closeness between interlocutors. In the first experiment, partici...

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Main Authors: Chiara Fini, Vanessa Era, Giovanna Cuomo, Ilenia Falcinelli, Mattia A. Gervasi, Matteo Candidi, Claudia Mazzuca, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Bodo Winter, Anna M. Borghi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-02-01
Series:Heliyon
Subjects:
Chat
Interpersonal closeness
Conversation
Abstractness
Self-other representation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025009065
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