1. Reduce anxiety when communicating
2. Manage anger
3. Resolve conflict
4. Maintain good relationships
5. Leave bad relationships
6. Recognize abusive behavior
7. Learn effective small talk
8. Listen better and easier
9. Recognize good leaders vs. bad leaders
10. Improve your "Body Language"
11. Handle cyberbullying and online harassment
12. Share yourself appropriately on social media
13. Feel comfortable in small groups
14. Persuade people and how others persuade you
15. Break through intercultural barriers
15 AMAZING TOPICS IN THIS COURSE
HANDY ESSAY GRADING GUIDE
Essay questions for exams are always posted separately.
GRADE STRUCTURE FOR ESSAYS:
A - excellent detail, presentation, clarity, and conformity to
assignment; shows serious thought, reflection and care with details;
outstanding and perhaps close to perfection – the gold medal of writing
B - very good detail, AND VERY GOOD in every way as above: presentation,
clarity, conformity to assignment, reflection and care with details - the silver medal of essays
C - average detail, presentation, clarity,
and conformity to assignment, but may have general sloppiness, run short, have
key errors, or appear rushed or incomplete; yet overall not bad. The plain baked potato of essays - a bronze medal
D – Similar to C level, but also falls short
in some key way; does not answer question properly, leaves reader confused or
needs much more time or effort; however, it's still passable work
F - Extremely incomplete, impossible to
read or perhaps misses the meaning of the question/s completely - not passable
work
ps - SUBJECT of email MUST HAVE ID - your name + CLASS + time/section (ex: OBAMA, COMM 1100 - 4:30 pm)
Good site about abuse
www.helpguide.org - mental/emotional abuse
What is Emotional/Mental Abuse?
Abuse is any behavior that is designed to control, dominate or overpower someone else through the use of fear, humiliation, verbal assaults or physical assaults.
Emotional/mental abuse can include anything from verbal abuse and destructive criticism/attacks to more subtle tactics, such as intimidation and manipulation.
Abuse can happen to anyone, regardless of size, gender, or strength, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. This is especially true when the abuse is psychological, rather than physical. Yet mental/emotional abuse can be just as harmful as any other kind of abuse; the only thing different is the abuser's choice of weapons.
Abuse is never the victim's fault. We all deserve to be treated with consideration, without fearing aggression or intimidation from someone else. Stand strong against abuse by refusing to accept any behavior described above.
You can also find a huge collection of resources here: Another helpful website
Bullies' Brains Happy When Others Are Unhappy
The brains of bullies—kids who start fights, tell lies, and break stuff with glee—may be wired to feel pleasure when watching others suffer pain, according to a new brain scanning study.The researchers had expected that the bullies would show no response when they witnessed pain in somebody else—that they experience a sort of emotional coldness that allows them to steal milk money with no remorse, for example. Previous research had shown that when nonbullies see other people in pain, the same areas of the brain light up that do when the nonbullies themselves experience pain—a sign of empathy, Lahey said.
The new research showed these areas in the bullies' brains were even more active than in the nonbullies.
"We think it means that they like seeing people in pain," Lahey said. "If that is true," he added, "they are getting positively reinforced every time they bully and are aggressive to other people."
In the study, Lahey and his colleagues looked at brain activity of eight 16- to 18-year-old boys with histories of lying, stealing, committing vandalism, and bullying.
These eight boys, who suffer what's clinically known as aggressive conduct disorder, were compared to a group of adolescent boys with no such histories.
The finding was unexpected, noted Benjamin Lahey, a psychologist at the University of Chicago and co-author of the study, which appears in the new issue of the journal Biological Psychology. Jean Decety, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, is lead author of the study.
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