CONTEXT Witnessing domestic violence increases a child's chance of emotional or behavioral problems during childhood and entering abusive relationships in adulthood, even without co-occurring child maltreatment. OBJECTIVE Our goals were to estimate the prevalence of reported violent disagreements in the homes of US children and to assess prevalence differences by race/ethnicity, residence, an...

We investigate style accommodation in online discussions, in particular its interplay with content agreement and disagreement. Using a new model for measuring style accommodation, we find that speakers coordinate on style more noticeably if they disagree than if they agree, especially if they want to establish rapport and possibly persuade their interlocutors.

Once upon a time I made a list of ten policies which I thought more-or-less everyone in Washington could agree were needed more-or-less everywhere in Latin America. I found a common interpretation of what I had written to be quite extraordinary, indeed largely the contrary of what I was arguing, so rather than try once again to stress the things on which we agree, let me try analyzing the disag...