Study confirms that ending your texts with a period is terrible

Now a study has confir­med it. Resear­chers, led by Bingham­ton Univer­si­ty’s Celia Klin, report that text messages ending with a period are percei­ved as being less sincere, proba­bly because the people sending them are heart­less.

— The Washing­ton Post

C’est marrant, je me faisais la même réflexion il y a peu pour les emails. Le point à la fin de la dernière phrase de chaque para­graphe semblait être une atti­tude fermée et auto­ri­taire.