People like talking more than listening. If we participated in conversations primarily to gain information, then you’d expect people to want to listen more than they speak. People almost always show the opposite behaviour.
This seems to shift the line a bit. If the goal of conversations exchange of information I don’t think we can really say who will do the most talking so should not try to draw any conclusion about conversation as info exchange based on people liking to talk more than listen. (It is perhaps interesting that is seems a lot of communication theory agrees that people who don’t actively listen tend not to be good at communication or conversation.) That said, I suspect one might use the signaling view to explain why more want to talk than listen. Knowledge is power. Power is status. People like status. Therefore people want to talk more than listen.
But that behavior is fully consistent with the idea conversation is largely about info exchange.
I did enjoy reading and appreciate that your wrote up your thoughts and summaries from reading the book. So don’t take my selecting one point to question as a signal otherwise ;-)
This seems to shift the line a bit. If the goal of conversations exchange of information I don’t think we can really say who will do the most talking so should not try to draw any conclusion about conversation as info exchange based on people liking to talk more than listen. (It is perhaps interesting that is seems a lot of communication theory agrees that people who don’t actively listen tend not to be good at communication or conversation.) That said, I suspect one might use the signaling view to explain why more want to talk than listen. Knowledge is power. Power is status. People like status. Therefore people want to talk more than listen.
But that behavior is fully consistent with the idea conversation is largely about info exchange.
I did enjoy reading and appreciate that your wrote up your thoughts and summaries from reading the book. So don’t take my selecting one point to question as a signal otherwise ;-)