From: TODAY
Waiting on an email? Why it takes some people SO long to respond
October 14, 2015
TODAY:
It seems as if you sent that email to your boss forever ago (or precisely 53 minutes ago). Why won’t she respond? Maybe she won’t grant your vacation time. Maybe you shouldn’t have made that joke.
It could simply be a generational difference. A recent study finds that email response time varies greatly by age and the older a person is, the fewer emails she will answer.
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“We expect someone to acknowledge us,” says Pamela Rutledge, direct of the Media Psychology Research Center, who was not involved in the study. “There’s a lot of social anxiety that comes along with [no email responses] because no one wants to be disrespected or no one wants to be ignored.”
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