Scientists: the point at the end of posts - a sign of insincerity

Website learned the news: researchers at Binghamton University (USA, NY) have shown that most people consider the point at the end of posts as a negative priznak.Nesmotrya that point in the end of the sentence grammatically correct, in e-mails most people see it as a negative emotional




Each participant gave a reading of 16 brief examples of correspondences, which begins with a question, and finishes with a monosyllabic response. For example, "Do you want to hang out in the evening?" - "Of course!". Part of the response was accompanied by a point at the end, and in part it is absent.

According to a survey, most participants regarded the answers to the point as a more hypocritical.

Text correspondence lacks many social markers, which are in face to face communication. During normal conversation people can easily obtain information about the emotions of the interlocutor with the help of views, facial expressions, tone of voice, pauses and other symptoms.

Obviously, when people are deprived of the correspondence of these mechanisms. They rely on the means available - emoticons, deliberate grammatical errors to reproduce the pronunciation of words, and according to our information, the punctuation.

Celia Wedge, Associate Professor

blockquote> Wedge study also confirmed that the exclamation mark at the end of posts people often considered a sign of sincerity, rather than vice versa.

Given that people tend to look for ways to maintain complex and rich details of the conversation, it is not surprising that the text of correspondence evolved. We are talking about the transfer of the same information [as in the face-to-face], only with text.

Celia Wedge, Associate Professor

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