Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Cognitive models of interaction comprise ideas about the tacit knowledge or mental processing required to engage in social interaction. The knowledge and mental processing of interest is just what is required for two or more persons to alternately produce utterances and embodied actions that are interconnected with each other's, and thus are interactive. This does not include many of the diverse cognitions that persons also draw on when interacting, for example their knowledge about and attitudes toward the matter at hand; their knowledge about and attitudes toward each other; their identities and stereotypes; their roles, rights, and obligations; and their power relation and social status. These other cognitions may influence the content, outcome, and usefulness of an interaction, but are not essential to achieving interaction as such.</jats:p>