Prior research on gaze, turn-taking, and backchannels suggests that the speaker’s gaze cues the listener’s paralinguistic responses, including feedback behaviors. To explore how conversants use feedback cues and responses, I studied a corpus of face-to-face conversational interaction, primarily using a conversation-analytic approach. Analysis of the dialogs suggests that paralinguistic behavior...

Despite the progress that has been made in understanding acceptance and resistance, there remains a need to further clarify into what behaviors they translate and what their impacts are. On the basis of our review, acceptance and resistance are associated with a range of behaviors, which in turn are related to various individual and organizational impacts. We suggest that taking these behaviors...

objective: this research aimed at evaluating the moderator role of school connection on the impact of violent friends towards aggressive behaviors in adolescent students of tehran high schools. methods: a sample of 3529 participants from tehran high school students was selected using multistage sampling method. participants completed school connection questionnaire (scq), iranian adolescents ri...

PURPOSE To investigate sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk-taking behaviors relative to other lifestyle and risk-taking behaviors. DESIGN The study design is cross sectional. SETTING Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. SUBJECTS Participants (N = 32,144) were 100% of Air Force recruits beginning basic military training from August 1995 to August 1996. MEASURES Recruits c...

Humans adapt their risk-taking behavior on the basis of perceptions of safety; this risk-compensation phenomenon is typified by people taking increased risks when using protective equipment. Existing studies have looked at people who know they are using safety equipment and have specifically focused on changes in behaviors for which that equipment might reduce risk. Here, we demonstrated that r...

Findings from a quantitative review of the empirical research literature on normal personality and sexual risk taking are reported. The review focuses on domains identified in major models of normal personality representing the psychobiological and taxonomic perspectives. Focal sexual risk-taking behaviors were number of partners, unprotected sex, and high-risk sexual encounters (e.g., sex with...