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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Back Channeling

No one on the podcast that's ever listening to this is ever going to see the volume of nods that I put in while the guest is speaking so as I'm here just going away like a little nodding dog sat on the back of a car. Back channels are actually a very lovely thing to do that's it's conversational support you're encouraging someone to keep going and show listenership. There have been some really interesting studies about how people take uh people that don't back channel very much or what how they misread their intentions. A famous study was done between men and women with the idea that men tend to not use back channeling as much as women did.

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