The article offers a comparative description of typological mechanisms used in political communicative practice and methods of verbal explication of its axiological and symbolic constituents determining universal mental features of individual/collective consciousness. The research position based on a systemic multilevel analysis of the component structure of discourse facilitates the identifica...

The present study developed and contrasted predictive models of male nonphysical sexual coercion (e.g., verbal pressure or manipulation) and physical sexual aggression (e.g., incapacitation, physical force, or threats) using a sample of 369 incarcerated males to identify shared and unique risk factors for each form of sexual perpetration. Results revealed a set of shared risk characteristics th...

This study used diaries of competitive interactions to explore the relationship between hormones and competitive aggression in women. Thirty women completed approximately 10 diary entries each. In each entry, the women described a recent competitive interaction they had engaged in and noted whether it was expressed aggressively or through other tactics. Each woman received a score for the fract...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of transactional analysis training on parent-child conflicts among male high school students. This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest control group design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all male first graders of high school in Central Marhamat Abad district, West Azerbaijan Province, in school year 2014-15. Th...

How May I Impress You? A Content Analysis of Online Impression Management Tactics of YouTube Beauty Vloggers by Xiaoxiao Ma Dr. Lawrence Mullen, Thesis Committee Chair Professor of Media and Policy University of Nevada, Las Vegas This research aims at investigating how YouTube beauty vloggers utilize impression management tactics to convey the intended image in an online environment by analyzin...

Analysis of sociointerpersonal communication patterns among discourse participants is essential to understand the manifestation of and the interpersonalcommunication features realized in online social interaction. The linguistic politeness theory provides an effective framework for such an analysis of sociointerpersonal communication features employed by online language users tomaintain and enh...