People don’t necessarily tell the same stories over and over again because they’re losing cognitive function, but because the stories are important, and they feel we need to know them.
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Repeated storytelling from elderly relatives doesn’t necessarily always signal age or cognitive decline. It’s about conveying memories and values to a new generation.
Mansplaining isn’t just a social media phenomenon — it permeates beyond the virtual realm to affect people in their working lives.
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People who experience mansplaining suffer lower organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and higher turnover intention, emotional exhaustion and psychological distress.
Bottlenose dolphins are extremely social animals that communicate constantly.
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Using urine and signature whistles from other dolphins, a team of scientists has shown that dolphins use signature whistles like names and hold mental representations of other dolphins in their minds.
Kenya’s journalists have had a tumultuous relationship with Uhuru Kenyatta’s government.
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Refugees from non-English speaking backgrounds with disabilities face the twin obstacles of English language courses that don’t work for them and disability services that don’t speak their language.
A family poses in front of their sod house in Custer County, Neb., in 1887.
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The ways Americans talk about firearms is full of contradictions, two communication scholars explain – and that powerfully shapes the country’s approach to gun policy.
Research suggests that many people prefer ghosting rather than open and honest conversations that might lead to conflict and stress.
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People often try to seem confident and certain in their message so it will be trusted and acted upon. But when information is in flux, research suggests you should be open about what you don’t know.
Bumble seeks to challenge what the company calls ‘the antiquated rules of dating.’
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For humans, there is a link between the development of language and cognitive skills. Studying the same process in dogs can be used to determine their capabilities at the puppy stage.
‘The Gossip’ (ca. 1922) by American painter William Penhallow Henderson.
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