# Prof. Yaacov Trope's research on communication

1 May 8, 2013 Stern in the News ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_041868.jpg?itok=hut7mwzo)>

Excerpt from [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/the-nearness-of-you/) -- "In research described earlier this year in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Elinor Amit, a College Fellow in psychology, along with two collaborators, Cheryl Wakslak and [Yaacov Trope](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/yaacov-trope), showed that people increasingly prefer to communicate verbally (versus visually) with people who are distant (versus close) — socially, geographically, or temporally."

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