Roger Kreuz

University of Memphis, Psychology, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

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I study and write about language and communication. My latest book, "Linguistic Fingerprints," was published in August 2023..

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How Do Different Types of Alignment Affect Perceived Entity Status

by Tailer Ransom and Roger Kreuz

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.

format_quoteEntitativity serves as a scalar measure of groupness, quantifying perceptions of unity in social interactions.format_quote

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Listeners invest in an assumed other's perspective despite cognitive cost

by Nicholas Duran and Roger Kreuz

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.

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Transcribing Oral Discourse: A Survey and a Model System

by Richard Dressler and Roger Kreuz

Discourse Processes, 2000

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Alignment Is a Function of Conversational Dynamics

by Roger Kreuz and Monica Riordan

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2013

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Distinguishing Sarcasm From Literal Language: Evidence From Books and Blogging

by David Kovaz, Monica Riordan, and Roger Kreuz

Discourse Processes, 2013

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That's ur Opinion": Alignment and Agreement in Computer-Mediated Communication

by David Kovaz, Monica Riordan, and Roger Kreuz

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2013

Emotion encoding and interpretation in computer-mediated communication: Reasons for use

by Roger Kreuz and Monica Riordan

Computers in Human Behavior, 2010

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Evidence for Alignment in a Computer-Mediated Text-Only Environment

by Roger Kreuz and Monica Riordan

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 ...

Cues in computer-mediated communication: A corpus analysis

by Roger Kreuz and Monica Riordan

Computers in Human Behavior, 2010

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Exaggeration

by Roger Kreuz and Monica Riordan

Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, 2014

23. The transcription of face-to-face interaction

by Roger Kreuz and Monica Riordan

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

by Monica Riordan and Roger Kreuz

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2011

Interactive alignment in simulated online computer-mediated communication

by Monica Riordan and Roger Kreuz

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2010

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

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.

format_quoteStudents often confused during AutoTutor interactions due to lack of turn-taking signals in its dialog moves.format_quote

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Aspects of idiom interpretation: Comment on Nayak and Gibbs

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1991

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

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.

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PsycCRITIQUES, 2004

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.

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