Saturday, October 13, 2007

E-mail inhibits empathy

New York Times passes on not a new idea, that writing is colder than face to face communication, but dresses the old idea up in neuro-fangled clothes. Empathy, in the form of neural mirroring, is unavailable during text only communication, and so the text is cold.

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