We share our thoughts with other minds, but we do not understand how. Having a common
language certainly helps, but infants' and tourists' communicative success clearly illustrates …

The human ability to make inferences about the minds of conspecifics is remarkable. The
majority of work in this area focuses on mental state representation ('theory of mind'), but has …

Although the importance of communication is recognized in several disciplines, it is rarely
studied in the context of online social interactions and joint actions. During online joint …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

Virtual teams are an essential part of work organizations. They help organizations utilize
skills and expertise regardless of where they are located. The virtual team literature …

Ethics and Academic Research examines both theories of ethical decision-making as well
as apply those theories to a broad range of situations and questions within a research …

How can we understand each other during communicative interactions? An influential
suggestion holds that communicators are primed by each other's behaviors, with associative …

Aligning on a shared system of communication requires senders and receivers reach a
balance between simplicity, where there is a pressure for compressed representations, and …

This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We
asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown …

This article aims to introduce new insights to further the understanding of easy language
(EL) and plain language (PL) as examples of tailored language and place them within a …