bill.cava.us » email http://bill.cava.us Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:18:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Egocentrism over E-Mail http://bill.cava.us/index.php/2008/04/14/egocentrism-over-e-mail/ http://bill.cava.us/index.php/2008/04/14/egocentrism-over-e-mail/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:16:27 +0000 bill http://bill.cava.us/?p=53 Paper from University of Chicago discusses why emails are often misunderstood:

“People tend to believe that they can communicate over e-mail more effectively than they actually can. Studies further suggest that this overconfidence is born of egocentrism, the inherent difficulty of detaching oneself from one’s own perspective when evaluating the perspective of someone else.”

University of Chicago [PDF]

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