People prefer to lie by email
Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Friday 26 September 2008. 14:14:00
It’s harder with paper and pen
PEOPLE FEEL it much easier to lie via e-mail than by handwritten communication according to studies at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University. Liuba Belkin, assistant professor of management at the University’s faculty of Business and Economics reckons that not only do people find it easier to lie using email, but feel justified in doing so. Belkin’s study involved giving a group of MBA students $89 each and telling them to divide it between themselves and an imaginary person as they saw fit. The students had to write either an email or handwritten note to the fictional other half, telling them how much money was in their possession and how it would be divided….
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