How Many Exclamation Points Are Too Many in an Email? A Psychologist Weighs In originally appeared on Parade. Writing an email might seem like common sense—just type out what you want to say and hit ...

The 45th President of the United States is a big fan of a particular type of punctuation – but what does this addiction really mean? Philip Cowell finds out. There is really only one rule when it ...

Business leaders and employees make dozens of communication choices each day, from what to say to how to say it. In a recent research paper, we (three academics) focus on one such small ...

Let's talk reality distortion. Reality distortion is quite a popular topic these days, what with our reality being bent into all shorts of shapes by the likes of the Apple Vision Pro. Also: The Apple ...

Simply sign up to the Social affairs myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I used to think there were two sorts of people in the world: those who used exclamation marks in their work emails ...

Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California report that exclamation point use is widely read as feminine and shapes impressions of warmth, ...

Punctuation is fraught and contentious business, and that’s before you even take semicolons into consideration. The battleground at present is the exclamation mark, because its use is such a gendered ...