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Behavioral Deception Detection: A Criminal Case Study

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Sample Deception—a deliberate attempt to mislead others—is a common communication device (DePaulo et al., 1996). People admit to telling lies in 27% of face-to-face conversations, 37% of phone calls, and 14% of the emails they send (Hancock et al., 2004). These lies commonly serve to grease the w...

How Is That Going to Work?: Explaining Commuter Marriage to Others

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Sample Sarah sighed as she hung up the phone and stared out the window of her third-floor office in the Arts and Sciences building. She loved being back in college teaching, but she was sick and tired of fighting other people’s ideas of what marriage was supposed to be. She often thought to herse...

Hassan, Ami, and Dalia's Mom: Narrative Medicine in Pediatrics

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Sample Communication among human beings has become increasingly mediated by technology in many areas, including medicine, where the mediation has moved doctors and patients apart. Physician-patient communication has been studied from various perspectives, including Narrative Medicine, which deals...

The 20th Century Civil Rights Movement: An Africana Studies Perspective

Author(s): MARK CHRISTIAN

The 20th Century Civil Rights Movement: An Africana Studies Perspective covers major aspects of the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement. It is not the standard text on the topic that is usually found because it uses sources directly associated with those whom led and marched on the campaigns. Too oft...

Insights for School Art and Imagination

Author(s): Karen Goldman

The words in this book bear the fingerprints of the thousands of students, hundreds of colleagues, as well as the significant people in the author’s life. Written from decades of experience in the classroom, this is a practical guide to developing insights and imagination in an art classroom. It con...

Talking Family: The Discourses of Voluntary Kin

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Sample Miriam scurried around the kitchen, working on Thanksgiving dinner. She checked the dining room table and decided it was lovely, with her grandmother’s linens and china that she used only for special dinners. She straightened the tall candles and the little Thanksgiving Pilgrim couple, fig...

Sports vs. Church: The Dilemma of Choosing Sides

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Abstract Firing someone is never easy. But when it’s your best head coach, whom everybody loves, and who is claiming discrimination for not being allowed to attend church, things get downright messy. *** “I want to thank you all for being here tonight,” Tom said. “As you know, we have a tou...

Dirty Dancing on the Field: Nonverbal Appropriateness and Gender Performance in American Football

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Sample Researchers studying human cultures, and even species in the animal world, have found that power hierarchies and demonstrations of power are found everywhere (Anderson, 2008). In the world of sports teams, the power hierarchies are abundant. Within a team, the hierarchy is often demonstrat...

Voice of a Pro - James P. Tressel

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Abstract “Concern for man and his fate must form the chief interest in all technical endeavors, never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.” –Albert Einstein “They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” –Dr. Lee J. Tressel. The philosophy that we...