April 2011
Beginner
256 pages
5h 40m
English
There are many ways to communicate: paper and pen, e-mail, face-to-face meetings, telephone, instant messaging. Some researchers have been interested in whether there are differences in how honest we are based on the medium.
Charles Naquin (2010) from DePaul University and his colleagues have conducted research on honesty in people when using email versus pen and paper.
In one study, forty-eight graduate business students were each given $89 (imaginary money) to divide with their partner; they had to decide whether to tell their partner how much money was in the kitty, as well as how much of the money to share with their partner. One group ...
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