Posted by Jen Star on July 23, 2005, at 18:01:31
In reply to You know what I find even more interesting... » Jen Star, posted by Racer on July 23, 2005, at 15:24:24
hi Racer,
I'm a geek too! :) It's nice that there are more out there.I agree with you - it is interesting to look at group dynamics and cycles. I've noticed that in RL groups, too.
Another thing I'm becoming curious about -- does the "2 second" rule for first impressions have a counterpart for # of posts it takes to "get" someone's personality online? It's harder, b/c you don't have body language, expressions, etc. But can we form accurate impressions from reading someone's posts?
Obviously research on this could ONLY be conducted by someone who had access to the real people and their posts. And you'd have to design the experiment carefully. But I'd be quite interested to see results if someone did an exp. on this.
Just from work experiences (reading lots of emails and interacting with real people), I'd say there are SOME writing tags that identify character traits, but that it's a harder and more nebulous comparison that using body language and expressions to get to character traits.
What do you think about this?
JenStar
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