Communications

Observation of Dating Practices Through Digital Dating Profile Analysis

Communications, Language and Gender, Sociolinguistics

Natasha Franco, Savannah Phillips, Remy Averitt, Navid Toomarian In the modern age of digital dating, the way individuals present themselves on platforms like Hinge provides valuable insight into the underlying dynamics and intentions driving their romantic pursuits. This study is motivated by the observation that relationship management and healthy dating practices aren’t widely covered in […]

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To Hear or Not To Hear: Identifying Speaker Ethnicity By Auditory Clips

Communications, Language and Identity

Caroline Breckling This study investigates to what extent individuals are able to identify a person’s ethnicity based solely on the sound of their voice. Expanding on previous research demonstrating humans’ relative accuracy in recognizing ethnicities by voice, this investigation aims to explore whether a listener’s own ethnicity or familiarity with other ethnicities affects their accuracy

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Language Ideologies in Animated Films: Why does that character sound like that?

Communications

Talla Khattat, Jacob Gutierrez, Edna Tovar, Grace Yang, Al Jackson, Espie Maldonado Why do all military characters in animation films have Southern accents? Throughout this blog, we aim to understand the world of languages in animated films and take you along with us. Audience members digest the creative choices that are made on screen and

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Manspreading: Myth, Message, or Management?

Communications

Cecilia Schmitz, Tommy Silva, Sinahi Torres, Ye Won Yoon  Communication takes a variety of forms including communication through the use of body language, but oftentimes different genders have shown differences in the way they use it to portray themselves. Previous research has indicated that men will participate in “manspreading” which consists of spreading out typically

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Expressions of Love and Satisfaction in Long-Distance vs. In-Person Relationships

Communications

Shadi Shans, Eleanor Moheban, Rishika Mehta, David Saidian, Monica Sargsyann As internet relationships become more widespread in the modern world, people are relying on creative methods to display their love digitally. The objective of this study was to investigate which of the two, online or in-person couples, enjoy a stronger sense of relationship satisfaction given

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Love Across Cultures: A Comparative Study of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of Affection in Text Messages Among American and East Asian College Students

Communications

Yoonhye Kim, Yuka Tanaka, Asaka Minami, Eugene Jo, Zivana Ongko Have you ever wondered why a simple text message can be interpreted differently by people from different cultures? We were curious about how cultural differences affect communication in romantic relationships and identify the causes of miscommunication among people from different cultural backgrounds. This study compares

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Parent & Child Communication Dynamics in Heritage Language Speakers

Communications

Jessica Nepomnyshy, Andrew Gerbs, Christabel Odoi Language is often considered a window into a culture, but what happens when that window starts to close? In many families, heritage language communication can be a complex and nuanced issue, especially when it comes to older and younger siblings. While the older generation may have grown up speaking

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A Talk About “The Talk”

Communications

Tess Ebrami-Homayun, Saba Kalepari, Hannah Pezeschki, Shaina Tavari One in five parents reports that they will never have a conversation regarding sex education with their children. The avoidance and uncomfortable nature of this conversation led us to explore the differences in communicative patterns between mothers and fathers to find what gives this conversation these attributes.

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Body Language and Technology: AI Expressing Human Emotional Body Language

Communications

Kissan Desai, Elizabeth Reza, Aaron Zarrabi Within today’s society artificial intelligence has reached levels that were once deemed unimaginable, from simple computer programming to being able to perform tasks such as mimicking human emotional body language. However, the question at hand around artificial intelligence is: to what extent can artificial intelligence “accurately” express human EBL?

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The Curse of Online Miscommunication

Communications

Christie Nguyen, Taymor Flower, Tatiana Paredes, Risa Nagase With the burgeoning of technology, communication has drastically changed and shifted to texting on electronic devices. Unparalleled to this, conversations have become much more accessible, and texting has revolutionized the way we interact with one another, but at what cost? The purpose of this study was to

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