If the interlocutor talks about their failure, will we tell them about our success in response?

If the interlocutor talks about their failure, will we tell them about our success in response?

Sample: 8 229 subjects.

Participants communicated with interlocutors in different contexts - real and imagined. For example, the interlocutor told whether they had been hired or not (i.e., success or failure) and one had to tell them about one's own result (i.e., success or failure). Or the interlocutor told about the results of their medical test and again one had to share one's own result.

Shown: people are more likely to share information when it matches. I.e., if you were told about a failure, you are more likely to also tell about a failure, but not about a success. At the same time, matching failures are told about more often than matching success. Matching failures are often shared to help the interlocutor (who also has a failure) feel better.

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