I read an article from CNN new called "Can you trust your e-mail?" The main idea of the article was that some people believe that people end to lie more often in e-mails than then tend to do when writing a letter. Two new studies went under was by business professors at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and Rutgers University in New Jersey and Chicago's DePaul University Both studies suggest that people are more likely to lie in an e-mail than in traditional pen-and-paper communication.
In one of the studies that went underway, a group of MBA Students were each told they would be given $89 (not really), and they were to divide the amount of money between themselves and a fictional second party, who was to only know that the amount of money was somewhere between $5 and $100. There was no negotiation; the other party had to accept whatever offer was made. In the end 92 percent of students lied about the amount of money available.
The way I see it, the students knew that it was just a test and there was no real amount of money nor was there a second person. I think some of the students just did it on purpose, because they knew it was nothing. If it was real, I don't think that high of a percent would have lied.
In the next study, the same idea and prompt was used but the only difference was that these students were to use pen and paper. In the end 64 percent of the students ended up lying about the total amount available.
Like I said for the first test, the students knew it wasn't real. Still a good amount of students would have lied any way, but the numbers might have been better, and it also matters on which students are used. In the end there is no true was to find out if people really do lie more when writing an e-mail, than they do writing a letter.
If you are interested in reading the article I read, please visit the fallowing link: Can you trust your e-mail?
Thanks 4 reading what I have to say.
MYM Janetbouncer
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