What Our Internal Voices Say About Ourselves
Internal dialogue is key to social relationships
What are you thinking? If you’re anything like me, you’ll spend much of your waking life busy with an internal stream of chatter—a silent dialogue that guides your actions, helps you to think through problems and sometimes chastises you for your mistakes. Is our “inner speech” (as psychologists term it) just mental chitchat, or does it serve some useful purposes? With new experimental methods, psychologists are lifting the hood on our internal conversations. And they’re showing us that our inner voices are far from a useless accompaniment to the tasks that our brains perform.
What are you thinking? If you’re anything like me, you’ll spend much of your waking life busy with an internal stream of chatter—a silent dialogue that guides your actions, helps you to think through problems and sometimes chastises you for your mistakes. Is our “inner speech” (as psychologists term it) just mental chitchat, or does it serve some useful purposes? With new experimental methods, psychologists are lifting the hood on our internal conversations. And they’re showing us that our inner voices are far from a useless accompaniment to the tasks that our brains perform.
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