{"id":1737,"date":"2008-07-25T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"fibbing-easier-through-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/07\/25\/fibbing-easier-through-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fibbing easier through e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From the Globe and Mail (<a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2178\">Report on Business<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever lied in an e-mail?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, you&#8217;re not alone. A U.S. study released Thursday shows e-mail is much more conducive to telling falsehoods than using old-fashioned pen and paper. Moreover, people feel more justified in doing it.<\/p>\n<p>The findings challenge the notion that e-mails are just the same as other written communication, the study&#8217;s authors said.<\/p>\n<p>The results \u201cillustrate that traditional pen-and-paper communication is indeed different from e-mail in the way it influences people&#8217;s behaviours, even though both [are] text only,\u201d said Charles Naquin of DePaul University, Terri Kurtzberg of Rutgers University, and Liuba Belkin of Lehigh University.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has found e-mails are associated with unseemly behaviour such as lower levels of trust, negative attitudes and \u201cflaming\u201d \u2013 sending rude messages. This study suggests a greater propensity to lie can be added to that list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail (Report on Business): Have you ever lied in an e-mail? Honestly, you&#8217;re not alone. A U.S. study released Thursday shows e-mail is much more conducive to telling falsehoods than using old-fashioned pen and paper. Moreover, people feel more justified in doing it. The findings challenge the notion that e-mails are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}