
Psychologists from the University of Michigan, conducting a study of people's attitudes towards misprints in the text,
linked tolerance for errors in other people's texts with the psychological characteristics of the characters evaluating the texts of people. The experiment involved 83 people, a psychological portrait of which was drawn up previously.
“This is the first study showing that trait and reader character influences how they interpret language,”
says Julie Boland , a professor of linguistics and psychology and the author of
this work . “In the experiment, we studied the social judgments that readers made regarding writers.”
Readers got acquainted with the responses to an advertisement about finding a neighbor to live together, made up in the form of e-mails. There were no mistakes in the part of the letters, some letters contained typos, some - grammatical errors. Readers were asked to evaluate the intelligence, friendliness and other properties of writers.
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Those of the subjects who had previously declared their intolerance for errors, showed this intolerance during the experiment. In addition, it turned out that people who are less inclined to agree with others react more sharply to grammatical errors, and less open people react to typographical errors, as well as those who consider themselves to be honest. And the closer a person was to an extrovert, the less he was disturbed by the mistakes of others.
In connection with the above, I want to note that everyone who sends messages about typos and inaccuracies in articles in a personal is nice, attentive and helpful people. Well, almost everything.