Upon Further Reflection. Chapter 9:How to Discover What You Have to Say: A Talk to Students. Quote 12

“A familiar example [of aversive control] is the pause in conversation that must be filled and that leads, too often, to verbal behavior about trivia—the weather, the latest news, what someone is wearing. It is also the occasion for hasty and ungrammatical speech, or nonsense, or revealing slips.” (p. 137)