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An illustrated card on a dark purple background: a dotted line runs from a document icon down to two chat bubbles, one sitting inside an archive box labelled kept and one breaking apart into scattered dots labelled discarded, beside the headline Free chat analysers vs paid.

November 2, 2026 · Guides

Free chat analysers vs paid: what you trade away

Illustration of a large purple chat bubble with three small reply bubbles beneath it, linked by dotted lines, on a dark card for the article Backchannel responses: what mm and ok become in a chat.

November 1, 2026 · Understanding yourself

Backchannel responses: what “mm” and “ok” become in a chat

Illustration of a payment card sending a dotted arrow to a padlock, separated by a dotted line from a chat bubble sending its own arrow to a document, for the article Is it safe to pay for a chat analysis? Where the card goes.

November 1, 2026 · Understanding yourself

Is it safe to pay for a chat analysis? Where the card goes

An illustration of three rings around a solid violet centre, like the layers of an onion, with chat bubbles stepping inward along a dotted path and one bubble moving back out, for the article Social penetration theory: the onion layers a chat keeps.

November 1, 2026 · Understanding yourself

Social penetration theory: the onion layers a chat keeps

Three chat bubbles linked by dotted lines, one with a struck through word followed by a correction and a dashed outline of an unsent message, illustrating the article Conversational repair: how a chat fixes its own mistakes.

October 31, 2026 · Understanding yourself

Conversational repair: how a chat fixes its own mistakes

An illustration of a large outlined speech bubble beside a stack of small filled chat bubbles and a dotted line running to a document frame, for the article on media richness theory and the record a lean chat leaves.

October 31, 2026 · Understanding yourself

Media richness theory, and the record a lean chat leaves

An illustration of two chat bubbles flowing along a dotted line into a framed portrait shape held inside an outlined browser window, for the article Who owns a chat analysis? Your chat, your portrait.

October 31, 2026 · Understanding yourself

Who owns a chat analysis? Your chat, your portrait

An illustrated card on a dark background showing a two person chat thread where one side's bubbles are solid and the other side's are outlined and unlabelled, under the headline Uploading a chat someone else is in.

October 30, 2026 · Guides

Uploading a chat someone else is in: five compared

A flat illustration for the headline Uncertainty reduction theory, read in a message thread, showing a column of chat bubbles in which question marks thin out from top to bottom beside a dotted line that narrows to a single point.

October 30, 2026 · Understanding yourself

Uncertainty reduction theory, read in a message thread

Two chat bubbles joined by a dotted line, one solid and one drawn as an outline, beside a clock and a blank frame, illustrating the online disinhibition effect and what a chat log keeps.

October 30, 2026 · Understanding yourself

The online disinhibition effect, and what a chat log keeps