When someone offends us, mood has a much stronger influence than personality over how we react.
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Judgements of politeness go beyond language and culture – they are also deeply tied to emotion and moral intuition.
Peer review of research sounds like it should be a conversation between equals. Instead, it can be patronizing, demanding and simply unkind. A group of journal editors thinks this should change.
Drinking, swearing and social transgressions can lead to good things.
Growing alarms over a ‘rudeness epidemic’ make it seem like incivility in the workplace is on the rise. The data suggest otherwise.
Dealing successfully with rudeness can help people develop resilience and confidence.
The world is up in arms about many politicians’ increasing rudeness. Are we right to be so perturbed?
Is being polite a commonly understood idea or is rudeness in the eye of the beholder?
Rudeness causes medical teams to perform worse, and ultimately this could have huge costs for patients.
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