PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Anyone who's ever worked with a bully knows how awful it can be. Is verbal abuse on the job illegal? And what can you do about it? Two German entrepreneurs set up a hotline called ...

At first, it seemed funny. “Temper tantrum” was how I described his behavior to my friends. Michael* would raise his voice at me, then flounce out of the room in a huff. At first his outbursts seemed ...

Physicians’ verbal abuse toward nurses is associated with a poor work environment, according to a study in Nursing Outlook. The authors noted that causality is unclear — a poor work environment could ...

Dental hygienists experience a variety of inappropriate behaviors at work, including verbal attacks, sexual innuendos, and evaluation of their appearance, according to a study published on June 6 in ...

The most maddening—and the most common—response I get when I write about the daughters and sons of unloving mothers is that people point out that the ones I write about were "only" (quotations marks ...

Computers, tablets, and smartphones are the unchallenged gatekeepers to the Internet in most of the world today. But not everywhere. Internet service is costly in many regions, and in some of those ...

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 ...