People Lie More In Emails Than Handwritten Letters, Study Says

People Lie More In E-mails Than Handwritten Letters, Study Says
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A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that people lie 50-percent more via e-mail than they do with handwritten letters. Although it's already been established that people are more likely to fib when sending text messages than when speaking on the phone or in person, researchers conducting the study were surprised to find a similar discrepancy across more comparable mediums.

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