Questions tagged [communication]
For questions regarding the exchange of messages through multiple modalities and disorders of these abilities such as speech-language pathology.
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Why do people reread their own text messages?
The following scene from an episode of Family Guy made me think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Znv5CYlxsI&t=1m17s
That made me realize I occasionally reread my own stuff, too. (But I don't ...
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How is the effect of current vote scores on people's votes interpreted in psychology?
On a site that people can vote on others' posts (like Stack Exchange sites), I believe people tend to be affected by the current vote score (and for Stack Exchange, if the user has enough reputation, ...
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Serializing and deserializing stable states of Hopfield networks
I am looking for simple artificial neural networks that may perform the following serializing task.
Consider two identical Hopfield networks, one being at rest, the other being in a stable state of ...
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How is the biological error signal in predictive coding computed?
I am quite inspired by the results obtained by PredNet, which implements a predictive coding model using artificial neural networks. They compute the prediction error as a simple subtraction, and then ...
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Does Lego intervention improve children's completion score compared to normal SALT interventions?
I'm working with a child who refuses to perform any SLT activities without the aid of Lego. I was wondering if anyone knew any interesting interventions involving Lego compared to standard SALT ...
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Do pictures help young children read (understand meaning) better or does it give them a delayed sense of imagination when decoding information?
I have started to read a book called "Vexed Texts: How Children's Picture Books Promote Illiteracy" by Pamela Protheroe and her belief is that images promotes illiteracy. There seems far too much ...
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What is this stratagem called when someone talks to you like you're a slow-witted kid?
What is this conversational stratagem called when someone wants to fish out certain information from you but, because they don't want to ask you about it directly (as they expect you might get ...
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Alternatives to Laban Movement Analysis
Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is an approach for describing movements using four main descriptors:
Body: which body parts move
Space: how much space is being taken up by the movement
Effort: the ...
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Is there evidence to suggest that receiving angry emails increases stress levels?
There are plenty of helpful descriptions of how to avoid angry emails. The reasoning is largely that it doesn't solve the problem. That is, sending an email whilst angry causes more problems for you ...
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Anonymity creates an environment full of bullies?
The Stack Exchange websites has people anonymously up vote or down vote whether questions and answers are good or bad and everyone builds their reputation based on this alone. I saw a question on the ...
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Why do people talk (or communicate)? [closed]
I think that people talk for planning immediate benefits or planning future benefits. For example if someone wants to eat a fruit on a tree but he doesn't know how to get it so he asks someone to get ...
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Do unschooled persons think differently from us (schooled persons)? How?
Through past experiences, I am convinced that "unschooled communities" such as tribals, nomads, cattle-herders, etc. (and persons belonging to such communities) have very different ways of thinking ...
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How much communication is -really- verbal? [closed]
It is often said that only a small part of our daily communication is through words, sometimes accompanied with claims that X% is through words, Y% through body language, Z% facial expressions, etc.
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Do readers consider the passive voice as more authoritative?
In the middle of the last century (roughly from the 20s-70s) the passive voice dominated scientific writing; or should it be said that scientific writing was dominated by the passive voice?
Nowadays,...
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Why do people look in the face or eyes while communicating?
While communicating, people tend to direct their gazes to the face (particularly eyes) of people. Why don't rather we look at their neck or just their chest or even their hair while communicating with ...
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Difficulty of expressing thoughts verbally
Some people find it difficult to express their thoughts verbally. They may often feel that their words don't give their thoughts enough justice, and that their thoughts could've been verbalized better....
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What is the psychological effect of wearing black clothes?
Background: I read that black is usually favored by people who are dominant. I read that the black color projects dominance, and also hides the person's feelings. Police, for example, adopt black as a ...
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Do people talk faster than they process? [closed]
I've hear both claims
1) people (in general) talk faster than listeners can process the meaning of the words being said
2) people can process what's being said faster than a person can talk
I think 2)...
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How do patients with Cotard's Syndrome rationalize environmental interactions?
A patient with Cotard's Syndrome (also called "Cotard delusion" and "Walking Corpse Syndrome") has the delusion that he or she is dead (and sometimes immortal), either figuratively or literally, yet ...
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Can information theory be applied to human interactions and communication?
I am not sure if this question is better suited for the computational science SE.
I learned a bit of Shannon's information theory in a course I took last year. In the class it was defined as the ...
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Age of learning versus relative mastery - are they linked?
Infants learn different things in different ages.
Let's say infant A learns to speak at age 1 (I have no idea what is normal), and infant B learn to speak at age 1.5.
Does the age of learning say ...
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Is this Auditory Processing Delay?
Would a person exhibiting some of these symptoms be a candidate for Auditory Processing Delay, or does it possibly suggest some other sort of diagnosis?
Some basic symptoms/examples:
A seeming ...
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Are introverts more talkative in written form than extroverts?
We all know that extroverts are in general more talkative than introverts in oral form. But how about written communication?
After having talked with lots of people on the internet and met several of ...
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When should a percentage be written as a percentage and when should it be written x out of n?
People perceive numbers, percentages and values in different ways depending on what it is and how it is presented.
I'm looking for research on when to communicate with an actual percentage and when ...
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Is there a pictograms repository under an open-commercial license?
I'm looking for pictograms repositories for non-verbal people. I found two types:
ones that I need to pay like PECS or SPC,
and others that are free but they have a no-commercial license like ...
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How to train oneself in the art of obfuscation [closed]
I really liked the movies Frost/Nixon, Thank You for Smoking, The Social Network and then I found this Doonesbury comic strip. I want to know how to train oneself in this art of obfuscation. I am not ...
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Why are most people not persuaded by rational arguments?
The sentence could look as a provocation for many people, but the thoughts are not always rational and linear. But why this happens? Is it possible to give a short answer?
"Counter to what you might ...
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Why is storytelling an effective way to transmit information between people?
Parables, fables, myths, whatever you might call them, stories have always been part of human consciousness. Within recent decades, storytelling is recognized as a big component of advertising and ...
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What makes us look into camera lens when we're being filmed? [closed]
I haven't met a person who wouldn't at least glance at a camera's lens from time to time when they're aware it's capturing an image or a video of them.
Usually creatures transmit a lot of information ...
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How are sexual cues known by the brain?
Sexual cues have been well established in evolutionary psychology as indicators of genetic compatibility/useful genes.
How does the human brain know that a cue is an indicator of a useful trait in ...
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How to interpret the meaning of “crossed arms”?
If my conversational partner (in western europe) crosses his arms, while I am talking;
How can I determine if he is:
showing signs of rejection and/or detachment
or if he chose this position for ...
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Are there any vocal chord experiments that attempt to synthesize communication externally?
I have an idea for an experiment. Basically, the experiment would be to create a novel transmission of visual information via the human vocal chords, but not as a traditional human spoken language ...
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Why do women feel odd when males stare at them?
I want to know why a woman feels something odd when a male stares at them. I have tried this on many girls. Some feel irritated , some became angry, and some even leave the room.
What causes these ...
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Differences between the way men and women interpret body language
There are many socially accepted ideas about the differences between men and women, I am wondering how much of this is misconception or based in reality.
I was reading this question: How important is ...
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Why do people make rants on Meta Stack Exchange sites?
Meta stackexchange sites are often the venue for immature rants authored by disgruntled members of the site. The Math stackexchange and meta stackoverflow includes a lot of this behavior. During a ...
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Why do people tend to reply to only one topic when multiple topics are brought up simultaneously?
This is a situation more frequent in online conversations, where you can type many things before the other person has a chance to reply.
Perhaps cognitive load, multi-tasking ability, have something ...
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Is psychotherapy more effective when examining free association speech than writing?
Is there a difference between free association speaking vs free association writing? Is psychotherapy more effective when examining free association speech?
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What are the psychological mechanisms for compulsive talkers?
What are the psychological mechanisms for people who can't seem to help frequently "talking too much"?
Specifically, I am referring to those that recognise cues to when someone is busy, disinterested ...
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What causes some people to unconsciously imitate the accents of others?
Background: I often notice that when I talk with someone with an accent that I often unconsciously start to imitate their accent. Similarly, you see some people that very quickly after moving to a ...
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What is the effect of displayed online personal identifiers on online communication?
Online interaction provides an interesting avenue for experiment and experience. People are able to hide or fabricate their personal details including age, sex, and appearance.
For the purposes of ...
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Why is it difficult for employees to express hatred to their boss?
Suppose Bob hates his boss. Note that Bob is an "average" person. Also suppose that he shouts as loudly as possible "[Curse] my boss" (with nobody else around but him).
Why is it so difficult for ...
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Does reading a book out loud make you better in social situations?
Suppose a person reads a book out loud for 1 hour straight. Would this "exercise" the parts of the brain involved in speech? Would this make the person a better communicator in social situations?
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Why do people talk fast in presentations when nervous?
I was at a professional development seminar today, and the presenter, while being interesting and knowing his subject admitted to being nervous and was speaking very fast. I know I do this when I am ...
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How are activities involving toy blocks linked the development of intelligence in children?
I'm looking for a peer reviewed article that links the development of intelligence to any form of block building activities.
For example a child playing with wooden blocks can improve their sensory-...
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What effects does spending a lot of time in online communities have on interpersonal skills?
There are quite a few users who are pretty much addicted to the Stack Exchange network and spend over 3-4 hours per day here. Time spent here will result in lower amount of social interactions, and ...
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What part of the brain locks up when a man is in the presence of an extremely attractive female?
This question is specifically about the male brain and its lack of cognition in the presence of a highly attractive female.
This is in contrast to regaining cognitive ability in the presence of an ...
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How to explain emoticons to an autistic person?
I am currently chatting in an IRC and there is one girl (i think she's about 18 years old) and she has Asperger syndrome and therefore is unable to understand countenance and feelings. She told me ...
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Can non-verbal communication in interpersonal relationships be taught rather than acquired?
In my experience people living together in difficult circumstances (e.g. close friends, family members) often learn to relate to each other's non-verbal cues.
For instance; A spouse may go shopping ...
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Why might a stutterer not stutter when talking to themselves, whispering, or singing?
Background: I'm a stutterer myself and have always wondered what caused my stuttering. There have been reports of the effects of certain genes and environmental factors that causes stuttering. But ...
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What psychological or sociological concepts form the basis of Principled Negotiation?
Although the various forwards mention that organizational behavior and social psychology are two of the fields that form the basis for the techniques taught at Harvard Law School's Negotiation and ...
