Fig. 7. Turn exchange is related nonlinearly to partner enjoyment.

The x axis indicates an individual’s mean interval between the end of their conversation partner’s turn and the beginning of their turn. Positive intervals indicate gaps between turns, and negative intervals indicate overlaps in speech near turn boundaries. We found that longer positive intervals (gaps) between turns were negatively associated with partner enjoyment, but we found no such relation between enjoyment and negative intervals (overlaps). This underscores the importance of connecting lower-level features of conversation with higher-level features, and the interdisciplinary understanding required to do so.