We’ve noticed more interruptions over the past few years — people cutting off our sentences, sometimes to guess what we’re going to say next. Half the time they don’t even get it right.

They dominate conversations with their stories, opinions and experiences, making others feel undervalued or ignored. This behavior includes interrupting, boasting, redirecting topics, using ...

In fact, chronic interrupting, slow-talking and even being overly verbose can be considered rude conversation habits by some.

But that's exactly what one expert recommends to inject life into a dead conversation. Psychologist Marshall B. Rosenberg wrote in his 2003 book "Nonviolent Communication" that interrupting ...