Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
What Your Texts Are Really Saying
Posted
January 1, 2016
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January 1, 2016
66,242
1,290
413
2.57%
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3:15Now Playing“Texter 1: Do you still want to get dinner tonight
Texter 2: Sure.
Texter 1: Wait are you actually sure? No worries if you’re busy
Texter 2: Yes.
Texter 1: …is there something you’re not telling me??
If you, too, have experienced the paranoia demonstrated by Texter 1, here’s some validation: Research shows that texts that end with a period really do come off as insincere.
In a study that will be published Feb. 2016 in Computers in Human Behavior, a team of psychologists from Binghamton University showed undergraduate students a series of text exchanges and handwritten notes, and asked them to rate the sincerity of each sender. The messages either contained or left out periods at the ends of sentences.
Participants were significantly more likely to find the senders of period-punctuated texts less genuine than the senders of unpunctuated texts. But when the notes were handwritten, period use didn’t seem to change sincerity ratings.”
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