id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3281 Emotions in virtual communication - Wikipedia .html text/html 1584 240 45 This combination of anonymous and social detached communication has been shown to increase the likelihood of flaming, or angry and hostile language as a result of uninhibited behavior.[5][6] One of the reasons that emails that are intended to be positive may come across as more neutral is that the process of email itself tends to be less stimulating than face-to-face communication.[10] Since many people tend to associate emails with work-related matters, they come to expect less positive affect to be displayed in emails.[11] Furthermore, the emotional ambiguity of email messages may actually lead to them to be interpreted as more negatively than they were intended.[12] Byron (2008) notes that emails from senders higher in status will be more likely be perceived as negative than emails received from people who are lower in status.[12] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3281.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3281.txt