Risk of oversharing in conversation increases with age, study says

(University of Edinburgh) The risk of oversharing in conversation -- or providing a listener with too much irrelevant detail -- increases as we age, research suggests.Tests carried out on a group of 100 people show the thinking skills that influence how we respond to people's points of view deteriorate with age.Linguists used a series of computerised listening and visual tests to assess thinking skills in the group, whose ages ranged from 17 to 84 years old.

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