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You lie more over the phone
Relative to email, that is. Why? Email leaves a permanent record and you are afraid of getting caught in your lies.
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told.Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and a whopping 37 per cent of phone calls.
That's a lot of lying. Here is the full story.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 13, 2004 at 11:25 AM in Science | Permalink
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E-mail is a depersonalizing medium, and the Internet is full of liars, right?
Just an interesting tidbit to counter that stereotype:
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. ... [Read More]
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