# Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on email communication is referenced

1 Faculty News April 17, 2017 ![New York Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035440.gif?itok=tfYuio90)>

Excerpt from [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/why-you-trust-email-way-more-than-you-should.html) -- "In one study led by the NYU marketing professor [Justin Kruger](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/justin-kruger), Epley and his colleagues asked participants to write pairs of sentences — one serious, one sarcastic — on various topics and email them to another subject, who would guess which was which. Senders estimated the sarcastic sentence would be misidentified only 3 percent of the time. Instead, recipients got it wrong five times as often."

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