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Papers by Roger Kreuz

Research paper thumbnail of How Do Different Types of Alignment Affect Perceived Entity Status

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019

Perceptions of entitativity are thought to be influenced by salient features such as the physical... more Perceptions of entitativity are thought to be influenced by salient features such as the physical proximity and physical similarity of group members (Campbell in Behav Sci 3:14–25, 1958). But social interactions among group members involve a number of low-level alignment (Pickering and Garrod in Behav Brain Sci 27:212–225, 2004) and synchronization (Marsh et al. in Top Cogn Sci 1:320–339, 2009) processes. Conversational partners, for instance, become aligned in syntax, semantics, emotion, and bodily posture. In this paper, we explore whether alignment correlates with observers’ judgments of entitativity, and, moreover, which specific forms of alignment have the strongest effects on these judgments. Results revealed that only emotional alignment had on effect on judgments of entitativity. We discuss how future work may further assess the role of various dimensions in shaping the perception of group status in linguistic interaction.

Research paper thumbnail of Listeners invest in an assumed other's perspective despite cognitive cost

Cognition, Jan 1, 2011

We explored perspective-taking behavior in a visuospatial mental rotation task that requires list... more We explored perspective-taking behavior in a visuospatial mental rotation task that requires listeners to adopt an egocentric or ''other-centric'' frame of reference. In the current task, objects could be interpreted relative to the point-of-view of the listener (egocentric) or of a simulated partner (other-centric). Across three studies, we evaluated participants' willingness to consider and act on partner-specific information, showing that a partner's perceived ability to contribute to collaborative mutual understanding modulated participants' perspective-taking behavior, either by increasing other-centric (Study 2) or egocentric (Study 3) responding. Moreover, we show that a large proportion of participants resolved referential ambiguity in terms of their partner's perspective, even when it was more cognitively difficult to do so (as tracked by online movement measures), and when the presence of a social partner had to be assumed ). In addition, participants continued to consider their partner's perspective during trials where visual perspectives were shared. Our results show that participants will thoroughly invest in either an other-centric or egocentric mode of responding, and that perspective-taking strategies are not always dictated by minimizing processing demands, but by more potent (albeit subtle) factors in the social context.

Research paper thumbnail of Transcribing Oral Discourse: A Survey and a Model System

Discourse Processes, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Alignment Is a Function of Conversational Dynamics

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Distinguishing Sarcasm From Literal Language: Evidence From Books and Blogging

Discourse Processes, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of That's ur Opinion": Alignment and Agreement in Computer-Mediated Communication

Research paper thumbnail of Emotion encoding and interpretation in computer-mediated communication: Reasons for use

Computers in Human Behavior, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Evidence for Alignment in a Computer-Mediated Text-Only Environment

During interaction, people coordinate in both verbal (eg, syntactically and semantically) and non... more During interaction, people coordinate in both verbal (eg, syntactically and semantically) and nonverbal (eg, gestural and prosodic) ways. This alignment has been suggested to be a result of grounding or priming. In both cases, visual cues assist understanding. This study explores how widely and how much participants align in a text-only environment. Forty-two participants debated a topic via Instant Messenger with a confederate. Using length analyses, LIWC, and LSA, results show punctuation and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Cues in computer-mediated communication: A corpus analysis

Computers in Human Behavior, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Exaggeration

Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of 23. The transcription of face-to-face interaction

Research paper thumbnail of ) = Happy? Nonverbal Cues Fulfill a Variety of Communication Goals

Research paper thumbnail of Interactive alignment in simulated online computer-mediated communication

Research paper thumbnail of Irony in context : Katharina Barbe, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995. xi + 206 pp. $57.00 (hb.)

Research paper thumbnail of The Dialog Advancer Network: A Conversation Manager for AutoTutor

The Dialog Advancer Network (DAN) is a mechanism that manages the conversation that occurs betwee... more The Dialog Advancer Network (DAN) is a mechanism that manages the conversation that occurs between a learner and a pedagogical agent. The DAN is currently being implemented in AutoTutor, a pedagogical agent that participates in conversations with students learning about introductory computer literacy topics. This paper includes an overview of AutoTutor and the DAN along with excerpts from pre-and post-DAN conversations. Data that describe AutoTutor's current conversational habits are provided along with proposed changes that will enable AutoTutor to more fully exploit the dialog move pathways within the DAN.

Research paper thumbnail of Aspects of idiom interpretation: Comment on Nayak and Gibbs

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1991

Page 1. Journal of Ex] 1991, Vol. f Experimental Psychology: C I. 120, No. 1,90-92 Copyright 1991... more Page 1. Journal of Ex] 1991, Vol. f Experimental Psychology: C I. 120, No. 1,90-92 Copyright 1991 by the American Psychological Association. Inc. 0096-3445/91/13.00 Aspects of Idiom Interpretation: Comment on Nayak and Gibbs ...

Research paper thumbnail of The assumptions behind questions in letters to advice columnists

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 1993

Page 1. The assumptions behind questions in letters to advice columnists1 ROGER J. KREUZ and ARTH... more Page 1. The assumptions behind questions in letters to advice columnists1 ROGER J. KREUZ and ARTHUR C. GRAESSER Abstract Van der Meij (1987) suggested that there are eleven assumptions behind sincere, information-seeking questions. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Social and paralinguistic cues to sarcasm

Humor, 2012

ABSTRACT Speakers signal sarcastic intent in a variety of ways, including the words they use and ... more ABSTRACT Speakers signal sarcastic intent in a variety of ways, including the words they use and the tone of voice they employ. In this paper, we investigate whether facial cues are also used to indicate sarcastic intent. Participants were audio- and videotaped as they engaged in tasks designed to elicit sarcasm. In order to assess how facial cues differed in terms of common ground, participant pairs were divided into pairs of friends and strangers. We provide evidence that sarcasm is also signaled by a variety of facial cues, such as movement of the head, eyes, and mouth, and these cues are more commonly employed by friends than by strangers.

Research paper thumbnail of Empirical potpourri

Research paper thumbnail of Lexical influences on the perception of sarcasm

Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Figurative Language - FigLanguages '07, 2007

Speakers and listeners make use of a variety of pragmatic factors to produce and identify sarcast... more Speakers and listeners make use of a variety of pragmatic factors to produce and identify sarcastic statements. It is also possible that lexical factors play a role, although this possibility has not been investigated previously. College students were asked to read excerpts from published works that originally contained the phrase said sarcastically, although the word sarcastically was deleted. The participants rated the characters' statements in these excerpts as more likely to be sarcastic than those from similar excerpts that did not originally contain the word sarcastically. The use of interjections, such as gee or gosh, predicted a significant amount of the variance in the participants' ratings of sarcastic intent. This outcome suggests that sarcastic statements may be more formulaic than previously realized. It also suggests that computer software could be written to recognize such lexical factors, greatly increasing the likelihood that nonliteral intent could be correctly interpreted by such programs, even if they are unable to identify the pragmatic components of nonliteral language.

Research paper thumbnail of How Do Different Types of Alignment Affect Perceived Entity Status

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019

Perceptions of entitativity are thought to be influenced by salient features such as the physical... more Perceptions of entitativity are thought to be influenced by salient features such as the physical proximity and physical similarity of group members (Campbell in Behav Sci 3:14–25, 1958). But social interactions among group members involve a number of low-level alignment (Pickering and Garrod in Behav Brain Sci 27:212–225, 2004) and synchronization (Marsh et al. in Top Cogn Sci 1:320–339, 2009) processes. Conversational partners, for instance, become aligned in syntax, semantics, emotion, and bodily posture. In this paper, we explore whether alignment correlates with observers’ judgments of entitativity, and, moreover, which specific forms of alignment have the strongest effects on these judgments. Results revealed that only emotional alignment had on effect on judgments of entitativity. We discuss how future work may further assess the role of various dimensions in shaping the perception of group status in linguistic interaction.

Research paper thumbnail of Listeners invest in an assumed other's perspective despite cognitive cost

Cognition, Jan 1, 2011

We explored perspective-taking behavior in a visuospatial mental rotation task that requires list... more We explored perspective-taking behavior in a visuospatial mental rotation task that requires listeners to adopt an egocentric or ''other-centric'' frame of reference. In the current task, objects could be interpreted relative to the point-of-view of the listener (egocentric) or of a simulated partner (other-centric). Across three studies, we evaluated participants' willingness to consider and act on partner-specific information, showing that a partner's perceived ability to contribute to collaborative mutual understanding modulated participants' perspective-taking behavior, either by increasing other-centric (Study 2) or egocentric (Study 3) responding. Moreover, we show that a large proportion of participants resolved referential ambiguity in terms of their partner's perspective, even when it was more cognitively difficult to do so (as tracked by online movement measures), and when the presence of a social partner had to be assumed ). In addition, participants continued to consider their partner's perspective during trials where visual perspectives were shared. Our results show that participants will thoroughly invest in either an other-centric or egocentric mode of responding, and that perspective-taking strategies are not always dictated by minimizing processing demands, but by more potent (albeit subtle) factors in the social context.

Research paper thumbnail of Transcribing Oral Discourse: A Survey and a Model System

Discourse Processes, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Alignment Is a Function of Conversational Dynamics

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2013

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Distinguishing Sarcasm From Literal Language: Evidence From Books and Blogging

Discourse Processes, 2013

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of That's ur Opinion": Alignment and Agreement in Computer-Mediated Communication

Research paper thumbnail of Emotion encoding and interpretation in computer-mediated communication: Reasons for use

Computers in Human Behavior, 2010

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Evidence for Alignment in a Computer-Mediated Text-Only Environment

During interaction, people coordinate in both verbal (eg, syntactically and semantically) and non... more During interaction, people coordinate in both verbal (eg, syntactically and semantically) and nonverbal (eg, gestural and prosodic) ways. This alignment has been suggested to be a result of grounding or priming. In both cases, visual cues assist understanding. This study explores how widely and how much participants align in a text-only environment. Forty-two participants debated a topic via Instant Messenger with a confederate. Using length analyses, LIWC, and LSA, results show punctuation and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Cues in computer-mediated communication: A corpus analysis

Computers in Human Behavior, 2010

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Exaggeration

Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of 23. The transcription of face-to-face interaction

Research paper thumbnail of ) = Happy? Nonverbal Cues Fulfill a Variety of Communication Goals

Research paper thumbnail of Interactive alignment in simulated online computer-mediated communication

Research paper thumbnail of Irony in context : Katharina Barbe, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995. xi + 206 pp. $57.00 (hb.)

Research paper thumbnail of The Dialog Advancer Network: A Conversation Manager for AutoTutor

The Dialog Advancer Network (DAN) is a mechanism that manages the conversation that occurs betwee... more The Dialog Advancer Network (DAN) is a mechanism that manages the conversation that occurs between a learner and a pedagogical agent. The DAN is currently being implemented in AutoTutor, a pedagogical agent that participates in conversations with students learning about introductory computer literacy topics. This paper includes an overview of AutoTutor and the DAN along with excerpts from pre-and post-DAN conversations. Data that describe AutoTutor's current conversational habits are provided along with proposed changes that will enable AutoTutor to more fully exploit the dialog move pathways within the DAN.

Research paper thumbnail of Aspects of idiom interpretation: Comment on Nayak and Gibbs

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1991

Page 1. Journal of Ex] 1991, Vol. f Experimental Psychology: C I. 120, No. 1,90-92 Copyright 1991... more Page 1. Journal of Ex] 1991, Vol. f Experimental Psychology: C I. 120, No. 1,90-92 Copyright 1991 by the American Psychological Association. Inc. 0096-3445/91/13.00 Aspects of Idiom Interpretation: Comment on Nayak and Gibbs ...

Research paper thumbnail of The assumptions behind questions in letters to advice columnists

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 1993

Page 1. The assumptions behind questions in letters to advice columnists1 ROGER J. KREUZ and ARTH... more Page 1. The assumptions behind questions in letters to advice columnists1 ROGER J. KREUZ and ARTHUR C. GRAESSER Abstract Van der Meij (1987) suggested that there are eleven assumptions behind sincere, information-seeking questions. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Social and paralinguistic cues to sarcasm

Humor, 2012

ABSTRACT Speakers signal sarcastic intent in a variety of ways, including the words they use and ... more ABSTRACT Speakers signal sarcastic intent in a variety of ways, including the words they use and the tone of voice they employ. In this paper, we investigate whether facial cues are also used to indicate sarcastic intent. Participants were audio- and videotaped as they engaged in tasks designed to elicit sarcasm. In order to assess how facial cues differed in terms of common ground, participant pairs were divided into pairs of friends and strangers. We provide evidence that sarcasm is also signaled by a variety of facial cues, such as movement of the head, eyes, and mouth, and these cues are more commonly employed by friends than by strangers.

Research paper thumbnail of Empirical potpourri

Research paper thumbnail of Lexical influences on the perception of sarcasm

Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Figurative Language - FigLanguages '07, 2007

Speakers and listeners make use of a variety of pragmatic factors to produce and identify sarcast... more Speakers and listeners make use of a variety of pragmatic factors to produce and identify sarcastic statements. It is also possible that lexical factors play a role, although this possibility has not been investigated previously. College students were asked to read excerpts from published works that originally contained the phrase said sarcastically, although the word sarcastically was deleted. The participants rated the characters' statements in these excerpts as more likely to be sarcastic than those from similar excerpts that did not originally contain the word sarcastically. The use of interjections, such as gee or gosh, predicted a significant amount of the variance in the participants' ratings of sarcastic intent. This outcome suggests that sarcastic statements may be more formulaic than previously realized. It also suggests that computer software could be written to recognize such lexical factors, greatly increasing the likelihood that nonliteral intent could be correctly interpreted by such programs, even if they are unable to identify the pragmatic components of nonliteral language.