Research on bad news delivery reveals a reliable temporal delay in the onset of the bad news message from the sender to the receiver. An experiment utilized a false feedback test design to determine whether the delay is better accounted for by negative verbal message planning, functional communication potential, or both. Participant-senders (N = 138) delivered either scripted or unscripted good...

We find that on average an announcement of rising unemployment is “good news” for stocks during economic expansions and “bad news” during economic contractions. Thus stock prices usually increase on news of rising unemployment, since the economy is usually in an expansion phase. We provide an explanation for this phenomenon. Unemployment news bundles two primitive types of information relevant ...

The broadcast media have awesome powertoday, and. as a result, nurses no longer have a choice as to whether or nOI they will use the radio and television media to enhance their professional image. Wcll-dcvclopcd radio and television communication skills can increase a nurse's own success. the success of health care institutions nurses work in. and the success of the nursing profess ion overa ll...

There is growing evidence to suggest that the impact of positive and negative news are asymmetricthat the impact of bad news has a much greater effect on investors’ sentiment than positive news does; investors react more harshly when bad news is disseminated. Using daily data from 30 companies listed on the DJIA index over the period April 3, 2012 to April 5, 2013, we analyse 289,443 online twe...

background: breaking bad news to cancer patients is one of the important responsibilities in the oncology setting. the purpose of this study is develop and validate a new theoretically based tool for measurement of attitude and practice of physicians toward breaking bad news. methods: the psychometric properties of the scale were established by following the guidelines of clark and watson. in t...