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It hardly comes as a surprise that she decided to switch from chemistry to the study of animal communication.
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He's the co-author of a new study on dolphin communication to be published next week in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The self-esteem of white girls, black girls and black boys decreases with TV consumption, says the study, published in Communication Research.
CNN: TV can boost self-esteem of white boys, study says
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Along the way, Ekman discovered something else, his other great contribution to the study of non-verbal communication: micro-expressions.
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"That is significant because even though they are at risk for more conflict, there are communication mechanisms that can reduce this, " says Tricia Burke, the study's lead author and visiting assistant professor in the communication studies department at the University of Puget Sound.
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By the way, The study done by Mehrabian in 1979 on communication channels indicates that in face-to-face conversation, 55% of meaning is communicated via NVC, 7% via the verbal language (words) and 38% via the paralinguistics (Tone, timbre, speed of speaking, etc) and ALL THREE areas have to be taken into consideration when assessing communication.
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But perhaps even more interesting was the second part of the same study: a report by PerryUndem Research and Communication based on 28 interviews with patients and health providers in Washington, D.
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"When people overtly lie about something, they can take something innocuous and make it into a bigger problem, " says John Caughlin, the study's lead researcher and professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Although the study focused on innovation in science, the data proved that face-to-face communication was more impactful, leading to less agenda-driven and more fluid conversations, brainstorming, problem solving, and serendipitous accidents.
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His study shows that the drugs failed to produce any significant benefits and exacerbated difficulties with thinking and communication - the distressing symptoms of Alzheimer's itself.
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