conversation: Conversational Dominance and Psychopathy

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

Conversational Dominance and Psychopathy

Description

Data from an experiment performed on American college students. Students were observed conversing for 10 minutes and summary data was recorded of the conversational dynamics. Pictures of the students were then rated by observers for personality characteristics. The Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale is used to assess subclinical psychopathy of the students, and the students were also subjected to a prisoners' dilemma.

Usage

conversation

Format

A data frame with 210 observations of 28 variables. Descriptions of some variables are from the authors.

gender

1 = female; 0 = male

f1_psychopathy

individual 1's standardized score on factor 1 of LSRP

f2_psychopathy

individual 1's standardized score on factor 2 of LSRP

total_psychopathy

individual 1's standardized score on full LSRP

attractiveness

individual 1's facial attractiveness, standardized (M = 0, SD = 1) separately for males and females

fighting_ability

student rating of fighting ability from pictures

strength

student rating of strength from pictures

height

standardized height score - standardization separate for each gender

median_income

in childhood zip code, in 1000s USD (individual 1)

oldest

Not described in paper

highest_class_rank

Not described in paper

major_presige

perceived prestige of self-reported academic major

dyad_status_difference

Not described in paper

proportion_words

an individual’s proportion of the triad’s words uttered

proportion_sequence_starts

proportion of the triad’s sequence starts performed, hereafter proportion of sequence starts (sequential dominance)

interruptions_per_min

interruptions performed per transcribed minute (participatory dominance)

sequence_starts_per_word_x

sequence starts per word produced times 100

interruptions_per_word_x

interruptions performed per word produced times 100

affect_words

frequency of affect words as described by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) 2007 program dictionary

indiv_1

id of individual 1

indiv_2

id of individual 2

camera

1 = facing the camera; 0 = not facing the camera (individual 1) during prisoner's dilemma

indiv_1_interrupts_indiv_2

interruptions by individual 1 of individual 2 per minute of transcribed conversation

indiv_2_interrupts_indiv_1

interruptions by individual 2 of individual 1 per minute of transcribed conversation

indiv_1_pd_indiv_2

Individual 1 decision toward individual 2 in PDG; 1 = individual 1 cooperates toward individual 2 in Prisoner's Dilemma; 0 = individual 1 defects toward individual 2

indiv_2_pd_indiv_1

Individual 2 decision toward individual 1 in PDG; 1 = individual 2 cooperates toward individual 1 in Prisoner's Dilemma: 0 = individual 2 defects toward individual 1

indiv_1_predicts_indiv_2

1 = individual 1 predicts that individual 2 cooperates toward individual 1; 0 = individual 1 predicts that individual 2 defects toward individual 1

indiv_2_predicts_indiv_1

1 = individual 2 predicts that individual 1 cooperates toward individual 2; 0 = individual 2 predicts that individual 1 defects toward individual 2

Details

This data is the combination of the data sets from two papers. For ease of use in classroom setting, median_income was imputed for students with missing data. This imputation is strictly for pedagogy.

From the authors: "The determinants of conversational dominance are not well understood. We used videotaped triadic interactions among unacquainted same-sex American college students to test predictions drawn from the theoretical distinction between dominance and prestige as modes of human status competition."

From the authors' second paper: "Recent evidence suggests that psychopathy is a trait continuum. To test this, we focus on a ubiquitous real-life source of conditional behaviour: the expected relational value of social partners, both in terms of their quality and the likely quantity of future interactions with them."

Source

Manson JH, Gervais MM, Fessler DMT, Kline MA (2014) Subclinical Primary Psychopathy, but Not Physical Formidability or Attractiveness, Predicts Conversational Dominance in a Zero-Acquaintance Situation. PLoS ONE 9(11): e113135.

Gervais Matthew M., Kline Michelle, Ludmer Mara, George Rachel and Manson Joseph H. 2013The strategy of psychopathy: primary psychopathic traits predict defection on low-value relationshipsProc. R. Soc. B.28020122773

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bx584t4

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.848cc

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