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Someone That I Used to Know: Ghosting as a Dissolution Strategy

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Abstract Any breakup can be emotionally painful and is frequently considered one of life’s most distressing psychological events (Knox, Zusman, & Nieves, 1998; Monroe, Rohde, Seeley, & Lewinsohn, 1999). For most adults the pursuit of a long-term committed romantic relationship is usual and most p...

ESL for Parents of Elementary School Children: English Skills to Advocate for Your Child's Success

Author(s): Marley Cervantes, Savyonne Steindler

The goal of this book is to help English-learning parents become effective advocates for their children. The content has been arranged around tasks that will help parents not only to interact with school staff and teachers but also to engage in their children’s education. Each chapter includes inter...

Engaging Motorcycle Safety in a University Community: Toward a Health Campaign Pedagogy Model for Community Advocacy

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Abstract Health campaign pedagogy can serve students and their communities as communication practice and advocacy. This chapter highlights the case of the Motorcycle Safety at Purdue (MS@P) campaign to build on and extend communication pedagogy as communication praxis (Mattson, Haas, & Kosmoski, ...

How Can You Love Someone You've Never Met? The Case of Angie's Catfish and the Hyperpersonal Model

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Sample Utilizing the Internet to meet a romantic partner is not uncommon. In fact, the Pew Research Center found that about 30% of adults have used an online dating site (Anderson, Vogels, & Turner, 2020). Additionally, of those who had tried online dating, most people described their overall exp...

Essential Microbiology

Author(s): Sascha McKeon

Essential Microbiology is an all-inclusive resource to students, serving as both textbook and lab manual to provide a foundation for allied health professionals and biology majors alike. Concepts are presented in easy to grasp excerpts making content accessible while maintaining rigor. Each chapter ...

Communicating a Surge of Information: How Do Individuals Understand, React, and Respond to Storm Surge Media Messages?

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Sample For those living directly on the coast, storm surge is the most dangerous, and potentially deadly, hurricane-related risk. During Hurricane Sandy in 2013, 40 deaths were directly attributed to flooding that occurred due to a dramatic slow rise of ocean surge. Beyond Sandy, storm surge has ...

Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World

Author(s): Stephanie Hedge, Courtney Cox

Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World is centered on the idea that contemporary writing is always already embedded in digital contexts and mediated through digital technologies and that this writing is always already...

Majoring in Psychology: A Realistic Preview of School and Work

Author(s): Cynthia L. S. Pury, Fred S. Switzer III, Peggy J. Tyler

Psychology is the sixth most popular undergraduate major in the U.S, with almost half a million majors on college campuses across the country. But do new students really understand what psychology majors study and accomplish? Do they know what jobs they will be prepared for with their degree? Do the...

I Hurt

Author(s): Gary Morais

Who do know that is struggling in relationships, personal challenges, addictions, or just “feeling stuck” in life? This book provides life transforming solutions in an easy to read, practical format.  It is designed to give you tools that have already helped thousands of people to actually change th...