Improving Difficult Social Interactions by Understanding Fears and Language Use, 2018-2021

These data come from a series of surveys that all relate to understanding the difficulties people have in talking to each other. We investigated: - what concerns/fears people have about talking to strangers and having difficult conversations with acquaintances (e.g., about miscarriage, bereavement, a cancer diagnosis) and close others (e.g., about death and dying) - how these concerns are similar/different across these contexts (e.g., do people worry about similar things when they consider talking to a stranger vs. talking to an acquaintance about bereavement)