Socializing alone: A review of more than 1,000 studies suggests that using technology to communicate with others is better than nothing 📱 – but still not as good as face-to-face interactions 🤝.

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Study suggests people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least 15 years. The timeframe researchers examined, from 2005 to 2019, coincides with the rise of texting, email and social media. It is possible that some spoken conversations have shifted to digital communication.

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✨ New research suggests that people who ghost (stop responding to messages without explanation) often feel worse about their silence than the person waiting for a reply realizes.

😔 Even a brief reply, like "Sorry, but I can't talk right now," can significantly narrow this emotional misunderstanding, with ghosters expecting to feel less bad and receivers more accurately predicting the ghoster's feelings.

🤝 A 2023 study, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by Sophia Li of UC Berkeley and Coral Zheng of Cambridge University, highlights this "affective misperception" between ghosters and ghostees.

#Ghosting #DigitalCommunication #Psychology