ABSTRACT
Whenever a speaker alters his speaking behavior by adapting in some way to response from his listener, he may be said to be responding to feedback. As a matter of fact, favorable responses from the listener often signify negative feedback, and unfavorable responses may signify positive feedback. To introduce possibilities for feedback into human interaction is to enrich the quality of human contact enormously; for now each partner in the interaction can not only influence and be influenced by the other, but the behavior of each will be conditioned by the behavior of the other. In interaction with feedback, the further behavior of the speaker is conditional upon the nature of the listener's response. Some feedback adjustments amount to automatic social habits, such as adjusting one's loudness level when the listener displays signs of difficulty in hearing, or asking him a question when he seems bored.
