Verbal insults are like a 'mini slap to the face', no matter who the insult is about, and continue to do so even after repetition. Verbal insults are like receiving a ’mini slap in the face’, and the ...

Hearing insults is like receiving a “mini slap in the face”, regardless of the precise context the insult is made in. That is the conclusion of a new paper published in Frontiers in Communication. The ...

A verbal insult will "get at you" and is like a "mini slap in the face", according to new research. Scientists looked at the short-term impact of repeated insults as part of a study analysing links ...

In Part 1 of this three-part series on “How Does Communication Work?” I introduced the distinction between kinesics (body language, including gestures, eye gaze, and facial expressions) and ...

Being yelled at or insulted is never easy. But it's a situation faced by about one-quarter of U.S. home health care workers, a new study finds. Certain environments, such as caring for someone with ...