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As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Royal Roads University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Royal Roads University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Canadians head to the polls on April 28. Like ...

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Social media and mobile phones are major disruptors of face-to-face conversations. Recent research has conclusively ...

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