A body of work has focused on consultations between general practitioners (GPs) and patients.1–3 Often, however, little attention has been paid to ascertaining how information is transmitted between doctor and patient or where information transfer fits into the consultation. This work comes from preliminary observation of filmed data taken of patient–GP consultations collected as part of the PR...

BACKGROUND The link between trait mindfulness and several dimensions of aggression (verbal, anger and hostility) has been documented, while the link between physical aggression and trait mindfulness remains less clear. METHOD We used two datasets: one United States sample from 300 freshmen males from Clemson University, South Carolina and a Chinese sample of 1516 freshmen students from Shangh...

Perceptions of verbal abuse were examined in a sample of 120 female undergraduate students. Participants read a scenario depicting a verbally abusive situation between a male and a female college student. The scenarios varied by type of relationship (friendship vs. dating), duration of relationship (1 month vs. 2 years), and genders of perpetrator and victim. Participants rated the perpetrator’...

This study investigated the effectiveness of using antecedent persuasive stimulation and response-contingent praise, within a small discussion group context, to modify the rate of verbal participation of Ss in an independent, classroom situation. Ss were 96 male college students who were divided into 12 treatment subgroups and 4 control subgroups of 6 Ss each. 3 treatment conditions were employ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine reports of verbal and physical abuse from family caregivers of adults with severe physical, neurological and developmental disabilities, and examine possible associations of abuse with family caregiver adjustment. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. PARTICIPANTS: 147 community-residing caregivers (129 women, 18 men) of adults with disabilities (66 men, 81 women). MEASURES: Caregiver ...