School has already started for many students and with so many pre-teen and teenage kids already in or starting school, anti bullying campaigns have begun. No one likes to be bullied and in our socially aware and interactive society, bullying is becoming taboo. Anti-bullying campaigns across the nation are hard at work trying to keep…
Read MoreItalian Gestures and Nonverbal Communication
As mentioned in a past blog post entitled “The Complicated World of Gestures”, there are 2 types of gestures: speech illustrators and emblems. Emblems are gestures that convey specific verbal meaning that can exist without the use of words. Other gestures (that are not emblems) co-occur with words. Gestures have been a part of Italian…
Read MorePast Blog: Disgust & Disease
Can the emotion of disgust help us stay healthy? Recent articles from Metro.com (uk) and SF Gate suggests that it very well can. It is scientifically proven that disgust is one of the seven basic universal facial expressions of emotion, meaning it is expressed in the same manner, on the face, across cultures. Metro reports…
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