Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

In our everyday life, we continually verbally and non-verbally interact with those in our surroundings both in our personal and professional lives. We do this by means of encoding and decoding ...

We've all been there. You're sharing something important, like a frustration, an idea, or a vulnerability, and the person across from you is doing "all the right things." They're nodding. They're ...