From fleeting small talk to that ever-growing social media thread, everyday life is laced with conversations. Not all conversations might seem consequential. But like the flap of a butterfly’s wing, ...

Talking while driving is widely recognized as a major source of distraction, but the specific ways conversation interferes with the earliest stages of visual processing have remained largely unclear.

A psychologist ran a routine replication and found something nobody was looking for. Fourteen years of recordings, 2,200 people, and a steady disappearance of the words we say aloud.

There was once a time when strangers talked to one another, sometimes eagerly. “In past eras, daily life made it necessary for individuals to engage with others different from themselves,” Paula ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A recent study conducted by the University of Missouri-Kansas City found that daily conversations are shrinking, with people speaking 300 fewer words each day. Valeria ...

We all replay conversations in our heads, but rarely end up making any more sense of them. Here are five reasons why we still do it. We’ve all at some point in our lives walked away from a ...

A recent article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science with the ominous title Sliding into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year fueled various unsettling headlines by ...