Recent research has shown that formal musical training a wealth of benefits in terms cognition, mental health, social skills, and even speech perception. Of these benefits, there is strong support for relationship between an improved ability to recognize emotions prosody. Given this connection, interpersonal relationships stand benefit from communication efficacy, which includes speech. Interpe...

The interface between Design and Manufacturing forms a locus of frequent interpersonal conflict. Misunderstandings, unwelcome surprises and planning problems are the rule rather than the exception. Within companies that deliver consumer goods in large quantities to the market this interface is also the transition from exploration (seeking new business opportunities) to exploitation (profiting f...

Research on interpersonal convergence and synchrony characterizes the way in which interacting individuals come to have more similar affect, behaviour, and cognition over time. Although its dynamics have been explored in many settings, convergence during conflict has been almost entirely overlooked. We present a simple but ecologically valid study comparing how different situational contexts th...

BACKGROUND Interpersonal conflict among nurses (traditionally called 'horizontal violence' or 'bullying') is a significant issue confronting the nursing profession. However, there is a dearth of research focusing on horizontal violence experienced by new graduate nurses. AIMS In order to assess the priority for preventive intervention programmes, the aims of this study were to determine the p...

People from different cultures vary in the ways they approach social conflicts, with Japanese being more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony and avoid conflicts than Americans are. Such cultural differences have developmental consequences for reasoning about social conflict. In the study reported here, we interviewed random samples of Americans from the Midwest United States and Japanes...

INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES IN INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR ................................ 3 From Individual to Group Impressions ...................................................................... 3 GROUP MEMBERSHIP AND INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR .................................. 7 The Scope and Range of Ethnocentrism .................................................................... 8 The Development of Eth...