BACKGROUND The Communication Skills Attitudes Scale (CSAS) created by Rees, Sheard and Davies and published in 2002 has been a widely used instrument for measuring medical students' attitudes towards learning communication skills. Earlier studies have shown that the CSAS mainly tests two dimensions of attitudes towards communication; positive attitudes (PAS) and negative attitudes (NAS). The ob...

The ability of mimicry to signal affiliation to, and elicit affiliation from, the mimicked person has generated great interest, but no definitive account of these phenomena has emerged. While affiliation is often cited as the driving force behind mimicry, ...

Any interactive communication system can support personal relationships by facilitating a welcome and timely presence of an absent person in the mind of the other. This paper presents a consideration of how short term feelings, as experienced during acts of communication, relate to a relationship’s longer term feelings towards one another. Through a 21-day study with 63 participants, we report ...

Ss expressed their moment-to-moment feelings about a target on a computer screen. In the 1 st study, the target was a positive, negative, or mixed-valence acquaintance; in the 2nd study, the target was a liked versus disliked acquaintance who committed a positive versus negative act. Several dynamic measures were derived from the positioning of the cursor (sampled 10 times per second) over a 2m...

The serotonin transporter polymorphism has been linked--often in interaction with environmental adversity--to a variety of outcomes, including affective disorders. This polymorphism is widely viewed as relating to anxiety traits. A different view is that it relates instead to impulsivity (vs. control) in reacting to emotions. In a test of the latter view, 303 students were genotyped on this pol...

The Organizational commitment is a reflection of the desires and responsibilities employees to remain an organization. organizational express detained feelings by which gives image as form for towards their purpose this study was analyze role job satisfaction in mediating effect transformational leadership on at PT. Mahaputra Engineering with 80 respondents. Data collected using observation int...

Learning and mastering the language of host country is considered to be an essential prerequisite for successful integration third-country nationals stateless persons that preconditions their position in labour market, social relations, even strengthening self-confidence. The empirical research allowed stating there a huge demand virtual learning needs following theoretical insights this articl...