Studies have suggested personality to be associated to initiation of simultaneous speech in dyadic communication. This investigation sought to verify an inverse relationship between an individual's social desirability and the frequency of engaged speech interruption. Ss were 64 male and 64 female college students who were divided into high, medium, and low subgroups concerning need for approval as measured by the Marlowe-Crowne scale and were required to partake in a standardized interview. A one-way analysis of variance supported the stated hypothesis.
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