Stability of interaction patterns during interviews: a replication.

Abstract

"The present investigation, a replication of an earlier one, was a study of the interaction patterns of 20 patients who were interviewed independently by two interviewers on the same day. The demonstrated cross validation of our earlier findings indicates that a single patient''s interaction pattern is both susceptible to planned changes in a single interviewer''s behavior (intrainterviewer modifi-ability) and that this pattern is remarkably stable, or invariant, from one interviewer to another (interinterviewer stability). Research currently in progress is designed to investigate further aspects of this time dimension of interaction patterns.".