Texting insincerely: The role of the period in text messaging

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Highlights:

• Participants read exchanges in which the response did or did not end with a period.

• Texts that ended with a period were rated as less sincere than those that did not.

• For handwritten notes, no such difference was found.

摘要

•Participants read exchanges in which the response did or did not end with a period.•Texts that ended with a period were rated as less sincere than those that did not.•For handwritten notes, no such difference was found.

论文关键词:Computer-mediated communication,CMC,Texting,Text messaging,Language processing,Language comprehension

论文评审过程:Received 21 August 2015, Revised 1 November 2015, Accepted 4 November 2015, Available online 22 November 2015, Version of Record 22 November 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.003