Citations:halfalogue

English citations of halfalogue

• 2010 May 19, “Study: Overheard cell phone conversations more distracting”, in WSYR-TV), Ithaca, New York:

  According to a peer-reviewed study forthcoming in Psychological Science, we are distracted from overhearing half of a conversation-a halfalogue-but not overhearing both sides of a conversation.

• 2010 May 21, “It's Not Just You: Hearing Half A Phone Call IS Annoying”, in Scientific American:

  But when we're limited to just one side of a two-sided dialogue—or “halfalogue”—our brains have to work harder to guess what's coming next.

References

• "Annoyed by cellphones chats? Scientists explain why", quote of Lauren Emberson
• "Halfalogues onward", by Mark Liberman, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania