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Assessing Baseline Cultural Sensitivity Among Employees at a Hospital System: A Mixed-Methods Approach

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Sample International and national organizations both public and private have thoroughly documented that health disparities are experienced by racial and ethnic minorities (Meyers, 2007; Nelson, 2002; Wilkinson & Marmot, 2003). These disparities occur in an alarming number of contexts across healt...

Make Me Laugh, Make Me Listen: Using Humor to Accomplish Interpersonal Influence

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Abstract Interpersonal communication is the bedrock of human existence. Our happiness and success as social beings is a reflection of the quality and types of relationships we engage in. Our need to feel recognized, supported, comfortable, and grounded drives our goal to engage in interpersonal r...

Psychological Thoughts: From Antiquity to Modern Times

Author(s): Zbigniew Pleszewski

The domain of psychology is shared with medicine, anthropology, philosophy and literature. Analyzing the human mind at various levels: molecular, biological, social, phenomenological and spiritual, involves different methods and conceptualizations. Nomothetic approach (in theoretical and experimenta...

The Ambiguity of Emotional Exchange Through Haptical Messages: The [Mis]Communication of Nonverbal Touch Following Bradley's Receipt of Bad News

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Sample As social actors, we are constantly sending and receiving nonverbal messages. Yet how well are targets of nonverbal communication able to accurately decode them? Among the things that I have noticed about the Generation Z population is how often they use the phrase I Love You without the t...

OpenStax American Government 2e hardcover TBC only

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"American Government 2e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the...

Family Communication and Political Identities: A Negative Case Analysis of Parental Partisan Socialization

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Abstract This chapter argues for a new line of political communication research within the family focusing on political differences between marital partners. Partisan and ideological separation of spouses can cause tension and argumentation in the household and this influences the socialization o...