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We are looking to see if blirtatiousness (which is essentially how quickly and how much people talk) is related to how groups interact. We will have participants discuss a controversial issue (e.g. abortion, gun control, tuition increases) and see if people who score high on a scale measuring blirtatiousness get more "air time" in a group discussion, dominate the discussion, and are able to sway the opinions of other group members. Another prediction is that if we don't allow people who like to talk a lot to talk initially, they will later hyperblirt (talk a whole bunch and very quickly) in order to get out all their pent up thoughts. Likewise, if we first force people who don't like to talk much to talk, we think they will later talk even less than they normally would because they feel that they have already gotten out all of their thoughts. Other variables we will look at are race, gender, extraversion, and a measure of group cohesion called self-verification.
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