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The Stressful Psychology of a Ghosted Email

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6964 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how a ghosted email causes different stress than a rude response does, the 15-year grudge match between rival dino hunters known as The Bone Wars, and crown shyness, the forest’s version of social distancing.

Ignoring someone's email and drafting a rude response stress people out in similar but different ways by Kelsey Donk

The Bone Wars Were a 15-Year Grudge Match Between Rival Dino Hunters by Reuben Westmaas

Crown shyness is how trees practice social distancing by Steffie Drucker

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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.

0:07.0

I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:08.0

And I'm Natalia Reagan. Today you learn about how a ghosted email causes different stress than a rude response does, the

0:14.2

15-year grudge match between rival Dino hunters known as the Bone Wars, and Crown Shiness,

0:19.8

the forest version of social distancing.

0:22.4

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:24.0

In the coronavirus work-from-home era,

0:28.0

some say that impolite emails are on the rise.

0:31.0

But not every rude email exchange involves caps lock and exclamation points.

0:35.8

Sometimes it involves never responding at all. It turns out that this kind of remote

0:41.6

working rudeness can have consequences on workers' health.

0:45.8

New research shows that both ignoring someone's email and drafting a rude response stress people

0:51.2

out, but in slightly different ways.

0:54.0

First of all, let's label the two types of rude emails that researchers looked at for this study.

1:00.0

The first is active rudeness.

1:02.0

This one's probably what first comes to mind when you think about rude work emails.

1:06.8

We're talking derogatory remarks or negative feedback given in all caps or with lots of exclamation

1:12.0

points and not in a good way.

1:14.3

Passive email rudeness is another kind when someone just ignores your email.

1:19.6

That passive rudeness is a different beast because it's so uncertain.

1:24.4

It's hard to know whether the person just forgot to answer you or whether they meant to ignore you.

1:30.0

Both kinds of impolite emails can cause stress and put people in a bad mood that carries over into their home lives.

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