13 Feb 04 @ 2:55 pm
People Lie More on the Phone than by Email
According to recent research people lie more on the phone than by email:
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told.Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and a whopping 37 per cent of phone calls.
People seem to realize that email leaves a written record that might come back to haunt them.
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