Dubai: Do you know when to shut up when talking to someone? And how do you know when your conversation buddy already wants you to stop talking? These are some of the important questions researchers tried to answer in two recent experiments. It’s a established fact that social connection is key to physical and mental well-being, especially in these COVID times. Overdoing it And having a good conversation is the main route to that end. But it turns out many of us overdo it. In new experiments, behavioural scientists led by Harvard University’s Adam Mastroianni showed evidence of the propensity of people to yak way. The results show, for one, that chattiness is not really just one characteristic of certain personality types.