Text messages that end in a period seen as less sincere

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 13:10 in Psychology & Sociology

Participants in a study read a series of exchanges that appeared either as text messages or as handwritten notes. Based on the participants’ responses, text messages that ended with a period were rated as less sincere than text messages that did not end with a period, authors say.

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