When communication strategies of government and public health officials across the world during a crisis are unclear and incompetent, it can lead to confusion and increase fear and anxiety in the public. Health campaigns should be organized strategically and professionally, and must rely on creative briefs to develop communication strategies…

Research has established that students often consider the delivery of instructor feedback to be a face-threatening event. To minimize the potential negative effects of feedback, verbal and nonverbal face-threat mitigation (FTM) strategies are utilized by instructors. Advances in digital feedback systems, like online documents and learning…

Successfully evaluating students' work challenges teachers to achieve both corrective task and identity-protection goals in interaction. This study investigated how face-threat mitigation that students received from their teachers during feedback influenced students' judgments about the quality and usefulness of the feedback their instructors…