Orientations toward interpersonal arguing in Chile

Toward an Interpersonal Neurobiology

Faculty Orientations Toward Instructional Reform

Issue 5 Some of the most promising developmental education innovations require that instructors significantly change their classroom practice. For example, instructors may be asked to teach to a more heterogeneous group of students, prepare students for statistics rather than algebra, or attend more explicitly to students’ nonacademic needs. Responsibility for cultivating such behavioral change...

‏‎interpersonal function of language in subtitling

‏‎translation as a comunicative process is always said to be associated with various aspects of meaning loss or gain. subtitling as a mode of translating, due to special discoursal and textual conditions imposed upon it, is believed to be an obvious case of this loss or gain. presenting the spoken sound track of a film in writing and synchronizing the perception of this text by the viewers with...

Civilised arguing.

ink or electronic) should not argue as antagonists, or even as advocates, as this can sour the atmosphere and lead to mere adversarial point scoring. ‘In quarrelling the truth is always lost’1. It is better to argue more as judges do, aiming to be fair, slowly edging towards as much agreement as possible, rather than each fighting his or her own corner. Trust each other’s sincerity. There is no...

Implicit theories of relationships: orientations toward evaluation and cultivation.

Implicit theories of relationships (ITRs) influence goals, motivations, attributions, and behavior in romantic relationships. We developed a model of ITRs that draws from social cognition, motivation, and achievement literatures, and derived conceptual parallels and hypotheses with regard to relationships. It is proposed that ITRs reflect the belief component of a larger system of motivations a...