Interpreting Digital Tone: Why Your Brain is Wired to Misread Messages and How to Stop The Anxiety It Creates

Today we're talking digital tone interpretation, what it is, why your brain is wired to misread email, text and IM messages, what the research says, and three ways to stop letting these messages live rent-free in your head and wreck your day. STUDY CITATIONS Kruger, J., Epley, N., Parker, J., & Ng, Z. (2005). Egocentrism over e-mail: Can we communicate as well as we think? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(6), 925–936. CONNECT WITH US Read the Weekly EDGE Newsletter to Boos...

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Today we're talking digital tone interpretation, what it is, why your brain is wired to misread email, text and IM messages, what the research says, and three ways to stop letting these messages live rent-free in your head and wreck your day.

STUDY CITATIONS

  1. Kruger, J., Epley, N., Parker, J., & Ng, Z. (2005). Egocentrism over e-mail: Can we communicate as well as we think? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(6), 925–936.

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