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Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. 
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Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has found an upside to texting, especially for people who feel stressed out, isolated and alone. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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In an age when Internet devices are always on, meeting face-to-face is becoming increasingly rare as people choose to meet screen-to-screen. Goldfield wants to know what this new dynamic is doing to normal social interaction? How do these devices and social media services, such as Facebook, affect the way we socialize and communicate with each other? But, more than that, what impact do these social networks have on their user's mental health?
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Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept words, according to a linguistics researcher.
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People are more likely to lie through texts than other forms of communication, such as video chats and face-to-face interactions, a new study suggests.
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Even when they're in a rush, people are less likely to tweak the truth when communicating on their mobile devices than when they're having a face-to-face conversation. Via Cindy Tam
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When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected. Articles about TEDTalks: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=TEDTalks
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College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, new research shows.
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Imagine if smartphone and tablet users could text a note under the table during a meeting without anyone being the wiser. Georgia Tech researchers have built a prototype app for touch-screen mobile devices that is vying to be a complete solution for texting without the need to look at a mobile gadget's screen.
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"It’s hard to believe but it has been just over 19 years since the first text message was sent from a computer to a mobile phone, and 18 years since the first phones were produced that allowed people to send text messages to one another. These days,..."
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For those addicted to driving and texting, this could be just the tech you need.
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