Tag: communication
I wrote a book about email – and found myself pining...
Randy Malamud, Georgia State University
Email has become so prevalent in our lives that I felt compelled to write about it for a Bloomsbury series...
When does trash talking work?
Karen C.P. McDermott, University of Connecticut
The Abstract features interesting research and the people behind it.
Karen C.P. McDermott recently completed a study on trash talk,...
5 tips for parents to build communication skills with children with...
Sanikan Wattanawongwan, Texas A&M University and J. Ganz, Texas A&M University
We are researchers who coach parents to communicate with children with disabilities.
Here...
How fireflies glow – and what signals they’re sending
Clyde Sorenson, North Carolina State University
You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up....
Rise and fall of the landline: 143 years of telephones becoming...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The global economy has changed dramatically over the past century and a half.
When I lecture my Boston University business students...
Yanny or Laurel? It’s your brain not your ears that decides
Jennell Vick, Case Western Reserve University
As a speech scientist, I never thought I’d see so much excitement on social media about one tiny little...
Touch forms the foundation of the powerful human-horse relationship
Keri Brandt Off, Fort Lewis College
Two recent films, “Lean on Pete” and “The Rider,” explore the transformative quality of human-horse relationships. Both films...
What the Favorite TV Shows of Trump Supporters Can Tell us...
Aaron Duncan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
According to new data, supporters of Donald Trump prefer to get their news from television and enjoy watching crime dramas.
These...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
