From: Huffington Post
Lying Is More Common When We’re Emailing, Study Shows
Huffington Post:
Conversing online might make you more inclined to lie, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst found that people lied more when they were emailing or instant-messaging, compared with when they talked to someone in person. Their study was published in the journal Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
“It’s not news that we lie. What’s new is that we lie even more online,” study researcher Mattitiyahu Zimbler, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, told HealthDay.
The Times of India reported that researchers had pairs of college students who were strangers talk to each other either in person, via email or over instant message.
The researchers found that they liked the most to each other when they were emailing, followed by lies in instant messages and then lies in face-to-face interaction.
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