Turn taking: Social personality and conversational style.

The temporal aspects of speaking style have long been of interest to social scientists, and a tradition of research in this area began with the development of the Interaction Chronograph (Chappie, 1939). Since that time, temporal variables have gained in importance in research, partly because they can be measured easily and reliably. Chappie's and subsequent research has shown that the frequency and duration of an individual's speech behavior in an interview is stable and can be related to other aspects of his personality (for a review of this literature, see