{"id":3360,"date":"2025-09-25T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/dont-overthink-your-use-of-exclamation-points\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:03:40","slug":"dont-overthink-your-use-of-exclamation-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/en\/dont-overthink-your-use-of-exclamation-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Overthink Your Use of Exclamation Points!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_text__yGFNO\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">Business leaders and employees make dozens of communication choices each day, from what to say to how to say it. In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022103125000939?CMX_ID=&amp;SIS_ID=&amp;dgcid=STMJ_220042_AUTH_SERV_PA&amp;utm_acid=206575969&amp;utm_campaign=STMJ_220042_AUTH_SERV_PA&amp;utm_in=DM588831&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=AC_\" class=\"ContentLink_anchor__Q6_U6\">research paper<\/a>, we (three academics) focus on one such small decision\u2014whether to use exclamation points\u2014as a window into how people navigate the mundane choices that characterize so much of day-to-day communication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v19.2&amp;appId=1761258887507575&amp;xfbml=false&amp;status=true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>#Dont #Overthink #Exclamation #Points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business leaders and employees make dozens of communication choices each day, from what to say to how to say it. In a recent research paper, we (three academics) focus on one such small decision\u2014whether to use exclamation points\u2014as a window into how people navigate the mundane choices that characterize so much of day-to-day communication. #Dont [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don\u2019t Overthink Your Use of Exclamation Points! - MORE SOURCING LTD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you ever hesitate before sending an email, weighing whether you should sign off your thanks with an exclamation point (friendly, eager) or a comma (cold, analytical)? 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