This post is co-authored by Ron Riggio and nonverbal communication expert Alan Crawley. When and why do we clap? We get startled, and we clap. We try to get our dog’s (or our child’s) attention, and ...

Students at the University of Oxford will now use jazz hands instead of applause as a way to be more inclusive of students who have sensory or anxiety disorders that may become uneasy by the noise ...

Music director Fabio Luisi conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Chorus and tenor Carl Tanner in Liszt's 'Faust Symphony' at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Sept. 28, 2023.

People will once again be allowed to clap at Encinitas City Council meetings to express support with a public speaker at the podium. And, a ban on speaker time donations, enacted during COVID-19, also ...