The Secret To Sincere Texts? Lose The Fullstop

We all know it's tricky to get messages and emotion across through text, however a study has now been done on how to improve those interactions!

Don’t end your texts with a period. Period.

The study out of SUNY Binghamton showed 126 undergraduates a bunch of texts featuring an invitation and a reply.

Participants rated replies that were properly punctuated with a fullstop as less sincere! However that perception did not apply to handwritten notes, which were also part of the study.

"Texting is lacking many of the social cues used in actual face-to-face conversations. When speaking, people easily convey social and emotional information," lead researcher Celia Klin explains in a press release."

"Therefore it makes sense that texters rely on what they have available to them—emoticons, deliberate misspellings that mimic speech sounds, and, according to our data, punctuation."

They concluded that putting an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, is the best way to come across as "sincere". 

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