Two-Person Psychopathology: Linguistic Style Matching Marks Disorganized Self-Referential Narrative in Psychosis
Introduction: Disturbed interpersonal attunement is a core but poorly operationalised feature of the psychopathology of schizophrenia. Language Style Matching (LSM), the largely unconscious alignment of two speakers' function words during ordinary conversation, offers an observable, dialogue-derived index of this dyadi...