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Advice Response Theory: Understanding Responses to Relationship Advice

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Sample As people go through their daily lives, they encounter decisions to be made and problems to be resolved. For example, you might need to decide on a phone carrier or a dentist, whether to visit distant family at the holidays, or how to pursue your ambitions after college. Or, you may be hav...

"I Won't be Home for Christmas": Accomplishing and Maintaining Family Estrangement

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Abstract Despite both scholarly and laypeople’s beliefs that family relationships are nonvoluntary (Baxter et al., 2009; Hess, 2000), Conti (2015) contends that family estrangement could be as common as divorce in some segments of society. Family estrangement occurs when at least one family membe...

OpenStax Calculus Vol 2 softcover

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A Firm Foundation: A Simple Introduction to the Christian Bible

Author(s): Christopher J. Suehr

The Bible is big, complicated, and one of the most important books in human history. A Firm Foundation introduces the book that many call sacred, but few have studied. This versatile resource presents the Bible in plain language, with straightforward summaries, questions to facilitate discussi...

Art Wired: The Science Behind Art

Author(s): Daniel May

Art Wired: The science behind art covers the evolution of art and why it was important to human survival. Using scientific studies and principles for attraction as a guide, the author attempts to break away from conventional definitions for art.  At its heart, May contends that all humans evolved wi...

0 to 30 to 60 to 90: Four Generations

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Abstract Dennis was pleased that over 40 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren attend the 65th wedding anniversary celebration he and his wife organized for his parents. The joy of the moment was somewhat overshadowed by all the other issues facing him. Many of those issues involved de...

They Won't Show Up at a Shelter!: The Invisible Population of LGBT Teens Experiencing Homelessness

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Sample As the principal investigator of a community-wide research project to uncover systems dynamics that had the potential to reduce or even eliminate homelessness, Alexa often found herself meeting with directors of social service organizations in order to create opportunities to interview the...

Voice and Gestures in Nonverbal Communication: Evidence From Psychophysiological Studies

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Abstract There are many studies about nonverbal communication analyzing its different components (see Knapp, 1980), especially kinesics. The most productive research period was between 1970 and 1980. However, according to Gordon and Druckman (2018), much of this research is theoretical or has an ...