• DOI:10.1177/0956797618783714
Corpus ID: 52165115

The Liking Gap in Conversations: Do People Like Us More Than We Think?

@article{Boothby2018TheLG,
  title={The Liking Gap in Conversations: Do People Like Us More Than We Think?},
  author={Erica J Boothby and Gus Cooney and G. Sandstrom and M. Clark},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2018},
  volume={29},
  pages={1742 - 1756}
}

Erica J Boothby, Gus Cooney, +1 author M. Clark

Published 2018

Psychology, Medicine

Psychological Science

Having conversations with new people is an important and rewarding part of social life. Yet conversations can also be intimidating and anxiety provoking, and this makes people wonder and worry about what their conversation partners really think of them. Are people accurate in their estimates? We found that following interactions, people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company, an illusion we call the liking gap. We observed the… CONTINUE READING

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