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 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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How to classify and understand emotions of people using chat and text messaging lingo and emoticons?
I am looking for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles that discuss natural language processing (NLP) involving chat or text messaging lingo/acronyms and the affect of chat participants based on language ...
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What type of learning mechanism produces a consistent typo?
There is a typographical error that I make and do so every time I try to type a certain word. Whenever I try to type remember, I type remeber. I do this every time. This is different to a regular typo ...
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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 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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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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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 ...
