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What are the means of communication used by people when they conduct their everyday lives; and what meanings does this...

When communicators interact with one another, they necessarily gaze (or look) at each other or gaze separately or together at...

Scholarship on gender and discourse has a long, interdisciplinary history. Anthropologists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries documented differences between...

The communicative roles of gestures during talk in interaction are partly a function of their placement within unfolding turns and...

Erving Goffman was a sociologist, but what he studied was communication. He established the “interaction order” as a legitimate topic...

Social scientists are not interested in identity in the sense of an individual’s unique name and address. They are interested...

Interactional sociolinguistics is concerned with how speakers signal and interpret meaning in social interaction. The term and the perspective are...

Intimate talk with family and friends can be examined as a product, process, or resource. It is a product of...

Social psychology is conventionally defined as the scientific study of how the actual or imagined presence of others influences an...

The term “language varieties” covers “language” and “dialect.” A variety may be characteristic of a particular social group, or associated...

Cross-training, also known as multiskilling or multiskill training, is a movement in the training industry prompted by the increase in...

Recently, researchers have turned their attention to the phenomenon of stress contagion that has been labeled crossover, namely, the reaction...

Culture is defined as the beliefs and values that shape the customs, norms, and practices of groups of people that...

Customized careers are unconventional patterns of workforce engagement by individuals who would ordinarily be expected to adhere to traditional career...

Employers around the globe are increasingly recognizing their employees’ domestic partnerships as a basis for extending human resource benefits. The...

One of the most important milestones in an individual’s life and career is the transition from school to work. Much...

The term elder care describes the unpaid help provided by family members, friends, and/or neighbors to frail or disabled elders,...

Electronic employment screening (EES) is preemployment assessment using any electronic hardware or software, including the Internet. EES is typically conducted...

Employee assistance programs (EAPs) function to treat a variety of work- and nonwork-related problems that may interfere with an employee’s...

The employment-at-will doctrine governs employment contracts of an unspecified duration. The doctrine’s classic formulation holds that absent a clear intention...

The term Neolithic is frequently used to refer to that stage in humanity’s history when people became sedentary and started...

Neurotheology is the scientific study of religious or spiritual experiences and feelings. By using psychology and neuroscience, scientists explore the...

The German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche presented scathing criticisms of the human sociocultural world (particularly religion and theology) and called for...

Nomads are mobile people with no fixed settlement and whose livelihoods integrally involve frequent movement. There are many manifestations of...

Charles Darwin was never entirely satisfied with the evolutionary role he originally gave to natural selection in On the Origin...

Norms (from Latin norma, a square, used by carpenters, masons, and other artificers to make their work rectangular) are either...

Kenneth Page Oakley was born on April 7, 1911 in Amersham, England. He received an undergraduate degree in geology in...

A broad name for a class of pigment bases, ochre is a fine clay that has been deeply colored by...

Ngandong is an archaeological site located on the High Terrace deposits near the Solo River in eastern Java, Indonesia, that...

John Ogbu was a major figure in educational anthropology. The impact of his writings and his influence on hundreds of...

Child rearing has always been one of life’s major challenges and potential sources of self-fulfillment. In today’s world, divorce and...

The Parenting Stress Index (PSI), developed by Richard Abidin in 1976, is a screening and diagnostic assessment tool commonly used...

Parole decisions have important implications. For prisoners, such decisions mean early release or define the conditions of release. For the...

Patients who are subjected to involuntary hospitalization in a psychiatric facility or who accept voluntary admission retain certain rights within...

Pedophilia, a sexual preference for prepubescent children, appears early in life, is stable over time, and directs the person’s sexuality...

Personal injury and emotional distress claims are civil court matters in which psychologists may become involved in several ways. A...

Personality disorders, formerly known as character disorders, make up a class of heterogeneous mental disorders characterized by chronic, maladaptive, and...

Plea bargaining is a process in a criminal case whereby the defendant agrees with the prosecutor to plead guilty (or...

Criminal cases often hinge on the testimony of eyewitnesses; sometimes those eyewitnesses are police officers. Police eyewitnesses perform the same...

Police officers are gatekeepers of the criminal court system and must make a number of critical decisions during their interactions...

The “truth-bias,” the expectation that, normally, one tells the truth, is proposed to be the cornerstone of humanity (Bok 1978)....

Directives were described by Searle (1975) as one of five basic speech acts. In his approach, taken from linguistic philosophy,...

Most Language and Social Interaction (LSI) researchers would agree that their findings about the social functionality of details of language...

The law operates primarily through language. Legislative bodies enact statutes and ordinances, judges hand down decisions, juries issue verdicts, and...

Using language – “languaging” (Becker 1988) – is possible at two levels of discourse. Generally, when we use language, we...

Discursive psychology examines how psychological issues are made relevant and put to use in everyday talk. Unlike traditional psychological perspectives,...

The world’s leading medical schools and journals officially recognize that what doctors and patients say to each other, and how...

Human emotionality is an ongoing stream that pervades every aspect of social life, talk, conversation, and discourse. Emotions are appraisals...

English-only movements seek to establish English as the official language of a nation, part of a nation, or a colony....

Harold Garfinkel introduced the term “ethnomethodology” (by analogy to “ethnoscience”) in the 1950s and 1960s and gave the approach its...