Study Finds People Lie More Often in E-Mails, Text Messages

Siri Stafford/Lifesize/Thinkstock(AMHERST, Mass.) -- A new study found that people are more likely to lie via e-mail and text messages than in person, according to HealthDay.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst studied 220 undergraduate students , and found that the participants lied at least once or twice in 15 minutes via text messages.

The study has been published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

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