The present study sets out to conduct a critical investigation into what linguistic strategies are exploited during the translation of English advertising brochures for household appliances into Persian to manipu- late customers to purchase the respective products. In the pursuit of this goal, it seeks to explore the val- ues that have been added to the Persian version of the translated b...

Tipping is a widespread custom in which service patrons voluntarily give money, above and beyond the price of the service, to the workers who have served them. This study found that the greater a nation’s level of neuroticism the larger the number of service professions that it is customary to tip in that country. This finding provides some support for an anthropological theory that tipping evo...

This article advances a communicative approach to social capital that views communication as the fundamental source of societal integration. We contend that integration occurring at the system level via news consumption and at the individual level via interpersonal discussion is amplified through ties at the community level. This cross-level interaction is theorized to encourage civic engagemen...

Article history: Received 22 August 2012 Available online 17 November 2012 Unemployment bearsmanynegative consequences for both individuals and societies. Particularly the long-term unemployed face poor chances of finding reemployment, and many recommendations issued in the regular unemployment literature may not apply to them. Therefore, the current study investigates whether employability (Fu...

Age-related decline in processing speed has long been considered a key driver of cognitive aging. While the majority of empirical evidence for the processing speed hypothesis has been obtained from analyses of between-person age differences, longitudinal studies provide a direct test of within-person change. Using recent developments in longitudinal mediation analysis, we examine the speed-medi...

Why is it so hard to talk to a machine? If only we could communicate in a natural human language with robots, they would be so much more useful. Having machines that can reason spatially and receive and communicate such reasoning linguistically will extend their utility in many more scenarios that are dangerous, tedious, unhealthy, etc. Scene description, involving linguistic expressions of the...