Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Shields, organizational conflict and workplace mediation expert.

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that surgeons are more directive than pediatricians in discussions with parents of critically ill children. STUDY DESIGN: We designed a novel tool to assess physician ...

DR. RUSSELL'S book is concerned to establish "the conclusion that directiveness and creative-ness are fundamental characteristics of life, shared by no inorganic system; that they are not to be ...

Researchers long have evaluated the roles parents play in children's development. Now, researchers have found that mothers' directiveness, the extent to which they try to control the content and pace ...