Cutting-edge research shows that animal communication, such as whale clicks and bird calls, may be more like human language ...

A linguistic expert explains the techniques Enron traders used to build and retain trust in their criminal strategies.

One summer several years ago, Harry Creffield got a dream job acting in a play in Cornwall, a vacation destination on England’s southern coast. The actor and comedian was given free accommodations and ...

The Purdue Police Department is offering free Verbal De-escalation training in February and March. “Verbal De-escalation” is a two-hour PowerPoint presentation. The objective is to teach skills to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Gingiss covers news impacting your customers and employees. The importance of body language in customer experience can be as ...

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A comparative study of the differences in nonverbal communication between China and the United States, based on the theory of high and low context, put forward by Edward T. Hall, in the light of the ...

My son is a wizard. He walks into the kitchen, looks at me and utters the magic words: “Can I have a cheese and tomato sandwich, please?” A few minutes later, just such a snack appears in front of him ...

Harsh words can wound – and when directed at children, they can have a lifelong impact. Definitions of verbal abuse vary, but it is generally characterised by a sustained pattern of behaviour where ...

A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...