Is Civility on the Rise or Decline in America?

Is Civility on the Rise or Decline in America?

Are Americans becoming less civil in the way they communicate with each other? And is the increasingly impersonal way people tend to communicate with one another today - via email, posting online and texting - somehow contributing to this escalation in incivility? According to a new, in-depth survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate in partnership with KRC Research, an overwhelming majority of Americans view the erosion of civility in human interaction today as a major problem, and ...