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Universal Principles of Human Communication: Preliminary Evidence from a Cross-Cultural Communication Game
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Center for Open Science, 2019.
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Abstract
- The present study points to several potentially universal principles of human communication. Pairs of participants, sampled from culturally and linguistically distinct societies (Western and Japanese, N=108: 16 Western-Western, 15 Japanese-Japanese and 23 Western-Japanese dyads) played a dyadic communication game in which they tried to communicate a range of experimenter-specified items to a partner by drawing, but without speaking or using letters or numbers. This paradigm forced participants to create a novel communication system. A range of similar communication behaviors were observed among the within-culture groups (Western-Western and Japanese-Japanese) and the across-culture group (Western-Japanese): they (1) used iconic signs to bootstrap successful communication, (2) addressed breakdowns in communication using other-initiated repairs, (3) simplified their communication behaviour over repeated social interactions and (4) aligned their communication behaviour over repeated social interactions. While the across- culture Western-Japanese dyads found the task more challenging, and cultural differences in communication behaviour were observed, the same basic findings applied across all groups. Our findings, which rely on two distinct cultural and linguistic groups, offer preliminary evidence for several universal principles of human communication.
- Subjects :
- Male
Culture
Communications system
0302 clinical medicine
Japan
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
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Cultural diversity
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Human communication
Language
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Pragmatics
Communication
05 social sciences
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Cultural Psychology|Cross-cultural Psychology
Experimental Semiotics
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Cognitive Psychology
Female
Psychology
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics
Cognitive psychology
Canada
Interaction
Cognitive Neuroscience
Langauge Evolution
Cross-cultural communication
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Interpersonal communication
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Artificial Intelligence
Humans
Cross-cultural
Interpersonal Relations
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Dialogue
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Cultural Psychology
Intercultural communication
United Kingdom
United States
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PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Cognitive Psychology|Language
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Games, Experimental
Cross-Cultural
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030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- ISSN :
- 03640213
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cea7f2ec4122cd6c1705e57755374b2c