Every country has its limits. One of those limits, for one country, is on display in this study: “Mismatch between jar opening demands and wrist torque strength of consumers in Iran,” Iman Dianat, Behzad Asadi, Héctor Ignacio Castellucci, Applied Ergonomics, vol. 94, March 2021, article 103421. The authors report: “A considerable mismatch (range = 25%–100%) […]
Looking at the clip above, did you spot any prominent non-verbal actions that might characterize ValleySpeak? A number of academic papers have examined the pronunciation aspects of so-called ValSpeak from California, few however, have focused on one of its characteristic features known as ‘Jaw Setting’ – in this case slack jaw, open mouth (see Fig. […]
Whether one person holds a door open for another is not simply a question of etiquette, says a study by Joseph P Santamaria and David A Rosenbaum [pictured here] of Pennsylvania State University. No, they say. Nothing simple about it. Santamaria and Rosenbaum worked to pursue the answer through a tangle of belief, logic, probability, perception […]