It's nice when a study comes out confirming what you already know. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology revealed that just over half of email recipients were able to discern sarcasm within the text. Humor, either because of the sender's lack of comedic timing or the failure of the recipient to get the joke, doesn't appear to be easily passed on in general. The problem is, according to the Chat rooms, instant messaging, text-based gaming environments-all have been touted for their superiority to asynchronous text media such as e-mail because of the dynamic nature of the discourse and ability to provide rapid feedback. But because these synchronous media are largely text-based, there likely remains a rift between the subjective stimuli available to the communicator and the objective stimuli available to the audience that communicators may fail to fully appreciate. In fact, we suspect the synchronous and rapid nature of these mediums may actually increase the rift between senders and receivers. Via here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web
Study Says You're Not Funny
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