The Stressful Psychology of a Ghosted Email
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 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
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The Bone Wars Were a 15-Year Grudge Match Between Rival Dino Hunters by Reuben Westmaas
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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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