Emotional bonds don't arise from a simple exchange of facial displays, but often emerge through the dynamic give and take of face-to-face interactions. This article explores the phenomenon of rapport, a feeling of connectedness that seems to arise from rapid and contingent positive feedback between partners and is often associated with socio-emotional processes. Rapport has been argued to lead to communicative efficiency, better learning outcomes, improved acceptance of medical advice and successful negotiations. We provide experimental evidence that a simple virtual character that provides positive listening feedback can induce stronger rapport-like effects than face-to-face communication between human partners. Specifically, this interaction can be more engaging to storytellers than speaking to a human audience, as measured by the length and content of their stories. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Gratch, J., Wang, N., Okhmatovskaia, A., Lamothe, F., Morales, M., Van Der Werf, R. J., & Morency, L. P. (2007). Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones? In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4552 LNCS, pp. 286–297). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73110-8_30
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