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Admit it.  You love your husband but that iron he gave you for your birthday. . .not so much. What happens when good people get bad gifts ? According to newswise.com, sometimes a little malice might be involved.   It reports that receiving is complicated when gifts are not meant to please. A typical U.S. consumer is expected to buy 14 gifts this holiday season, and new marketing research describes how and why many of these gifts will cause dissatisfaction rather than joy. In new research findings, NYIT School of Management associate professor Deborah Y. Cohn asserts that people who give bad gifts often do so intentionally. Prior gift-giving research has assumed that bad gifts result from mistakes, but Cohn’s study, using in-depth interviews as well as data available via online message boards, describes five categories of intentional bad gift-giving: gifts that threaten the recipient’s self-concept, such as: -- giving a pregnancy test to your childless daught...

Now who would have guessed it?  A new study finds that non-verbal behavior has counted for more this election season than substance. Hmm.....Could they be talking about Trump?  " When style obscures substance: Visual attention to display appropriateness in the 2012 presidential debates ,” recently published in the journal Communication Monographs , and highlighted in the National Communication Association’s newly released research digest, Communication Currents , examines the consequences of appropriate versus inappropriate nonverbal behavior as displayed by candidates during presidential debates, newswise.com reports. Trump's insulting of the pope and flopping his comb-over around, twisting his lips in disgust at Cruz, and pumping his fist in celebration of himself matters more than the fact that, when asked how he'd increase the country's ability to fight terrorists, simply says, "It will be great"? I'm moving to Canada. Communication resea...