According to Margaret Gilbert, a joint commitment (JC) is a commitment of two or more agents, called the parties of the JC, to engage in a common project. Creating a JC often involves an explicit agreement, carried out in a conversational interaction through overt communication. We explored aspects of such interactions that can be considered as complementary to verbal exchanges, focusing on how...

objective: reviewing memories in a verbal or non-verbal ways is a type of interpersonal communication that elderlies or patients with cognitive disorders by expressing their feelings find an opportunity for social and professional interactions. the purpose of this study is analyzing the effectiveness of treatment techniques of life revision on cognitive status of retired men in tehran.   method...

BACKGROUND Globally, clinical certification of the cause of neonatal death is not commonly available in developing countries. Under such circumstances it is imperative to use available WHO verbal autopsy tool to ascertain causes of death for strategic health planning in countries where resources are limited and the burden of neonatal death is high. The study explores the diagnostic accuracy of ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of verbal self-Instruction on pessimistic attribution style about negative events in children with dyslexia. Methods: The study was experimental with pre-test-post-test and control group. The statistical population consists of all dyslexic students of Maktab Ali School in Tehran City. Forty students were selected by conve...

There is some indication that people differ regarding their visual and verbal cognitive style. The Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire (OSIVQ) assumes a three-dimensional cognitive style model, which distinguishes between object imagery, spatial imagery and verbal dimensions. Using eye tracking as a means to observe actual gaze behaviours when learning with text-picture combinations...

Communication is an essential part of daily life. For a better relationship, some developed communication skills are presented as learned behavior that makes any person bring out positive responses from other individuals and establish satisfactory relations to assist social These behaviors related suitable required speech, listening, thoughts for another which share with different verbal non-ve...

Verbal deception is everywhere—in interpersonal relationships, in politics, in advertising, and in courts of law. In all of these, and in many other domains, we often find people “telling it like it isn’t.” This chapter is concerned with understanding what this seemingly simple idea really means. Much work has been done in several fields (e.g., communication studies, philosophy, linguistics) an...

In electrolaryngeal speech, an excitation signal is provided by means of a buzzer held against the neck which is usually operated at a constant frequency rate. While such Transcutaneous Artificial Larynges (TALs) provide a means for verbal communication for people who are unable to use their own, the monotone F0 pattern results in poor speech quality. In the present study, cepstral analysis was...