Sarcasm is difficult to convey by e-mail Bashny.Net

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Surely you also ever received a letter that made you wonder: writing should be taken at face value or as a joke? The researchers conducted a series of tests with undergraduates at Cornell University, to check if people can convey sarcasm e-mails, as well as whether they consider themselves capable of it or not.

Looking ahead, we say: no, can not, but most of them overestimate their communication skills. But the phrase chosen by scientists to describe the experiment - it is something! Very much they're smart. And if you still doubt your ability to communicate in a letter sarcasm, by the example of our place in the end of the sentence smiley;)

"Without the help of paralinguistic signals, as a gesture, accent or intonation to convey emotion and tone of the e-mails can be difficult. Five experiments suggest that this limitation is often underestimated. For example, people tend to believe that they are able to communicate by e-mail more effectively than is actually happening. The fourth and fifth studies suggest that the overestimation of its features - it is a manifestation of self-centeredness, which is expressed in the complexity of the part to see to their own point of view and evaluate the views of someone else. Therefore, the sender and the addressee of the message perceived in different ways. If the sender is joking, it does not mean that the recipient will understand it if not configured joke ».

And here is another excerpt from the full report: "We associate the results with egocentrism. The sender knew that the statement "In Godzilla remove sequel, well, business, waiting, with" - a sarcastic, self-centered, and suggested that the recipient will think the same. Presumably, he did not understand how the phrase is ambiguous without intonation emphasis on "things well", a gesture or a facial expression or to basic information about the sender (for example, his taste for the film).

Note that, in spite of overconfidence, the level of accuracy was quite high - 84% of the subjects was told to readers of sarcasm. Therefore, based on the data obtained, it would be wrong to assume that people do not express sarcasm e-mails. But they are not as good at this as they find themselves ».

via factroom.ru