Why Do People Interrupt You?

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This video dives into why we interrupt. Some reasons why are more straightforward: perhaps you blurt something out, perhaps people are jerks, but some new research tries to identify the bits of the brain that are responsible for you keeping time in a conversation. The research involves an obscure species of ultrasonic singing mice. Naturally.

This episode was written by Bahar Gholipour and Vanessa Hill.
Thanks to Michael Long for his time being interviewed for this video. For more, his lab at NYU: https://longlab.med.nyu.edu/

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Okobi, D. E., Banerjee, A., Matheson, A. M., Phelps, S. M., & Long, M. A. (2019). Motor cortical control of vocal interaction in neotropical singing mice. Science, 363(6430), 983-988. https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...

Farley, S. D. (2008). Attaining status at the expense of likeability: pilfering power through conversational interruption. Journal of nonverbal behavior, 32(4), 241-260.
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