Cultural evolutionary theory has identified a range of cognitive biases that guide human
social learning. Naturalistic and experimental studies indicate transmission biases favoring …

Successful language use requires accurate intention recognition. However, sometimes this
can be undermined because communication occurs within an interpersonal context. In this …

Everyday conversation is, as the term suggests, a frequent and seemingly effortless
phenomenon. However, when closely examined, it is seen that the process of achieving …

In this research I explored the communication of emotions in digital contexts. Specifically,
how well are people able to implicitly communicate discrete emotional states with words …

This paper examines tropes in video games pertaining to conversations between player
characters and Non-Player Characters (NPCs). Drawing from the fields of pragmatics and …

Interaction between people is a cornerstone of being human. Despite huge developments in
languages and communicative skills, interaction often fails, which causes problems and …

Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents
might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may …

We examined how people perceive and talk about miscommunication. Participants in study
one recalled a miscommunication incident, and then responded to a set of questions …

When interlocutors repeatedly describe referents to each other, they rapidly converge on
referring expressions which become increasingly systematized and abstract as the …

Common‐sense intuition suggests that, when people are engaged in informational
exchanges, they communicate so as to be reasonably sure that they perform the exchanges …