“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

Zipf’s law, a striking statistical regularity in human language, posits that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank within a frequency-ordered list. This phenomenon, observed ...

Hinds, Pamela J., Tsedal Neeley, and Catherine Durnell Cramton. "Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams." Journal of International ...

The Cambridge Dictionary defines “read the room” as “to be or become aware of the opinions and attitudes of a group of people that you are talking to.” In the workplace, your ability to read the room ...

Power dynamics in academia are like the seasons: rarely static, often unpredictable and occasionally extreme. As academics, we move through changing structures, new department heads, abrupt ...

This post provides some tools for managing negative, dominant power dynamics in both professional and personal relationships. The effectiveness of these strategies may vary depending on the context ...