Psychologist Celia Klin and his team examined how people interpret these writing messages. They found that the extra punctuation marks or words pouring words into individual messages made the readers feel more emotional, often sad or disgust.
There are no tones and gestures that we use in the conversation messages, so people use “text styles” – for example, excess punctuation or spelling errors. The examination of Kama shows that readers know these styles intentionally and understand them as adding emotions such as a dramatic pause in talking.
The study focuses on negative emotions, but the clin believes that it is necessary to do additional research to find out how these text styles work in various situations, for example in positive messages.
Source: Ferra
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