Imagine the following situation: It’s March 15 th, and Mark, an American manager, is arranging a date for the installation of a powerful new computing system for a Japanese company. With the ...

Learning the Language of Indirectness. by Andy Molinsky and Melissa Hahn. May 6, 2015 ...

Objective To assess the comparative effectiveness of exercise, antidepressants and their combination for alleviating depressive symptoms in adults with non-severe depression. Design Systematic review ...

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This indirectness or, in many cases, refusal to utter out loud what we really mean can be described as an Irish trait, but is it simply a case of us being nice and not wanting to offend others?