When we communicate via e-mail, however, we lose that entire mechanism for communicating feelings. When brains can’t dance together, feelings don’t get to tether. But wait, it gets worse. When the brain receives insufficient data about others’ feelings, it just makes stuff up. The brain makes assumptions about the emotional context of the message and then fabricates the missing information accordingly. It does not just fabricate information, however. It also automatically believes those fabrications to be true. Worse still, those fabrications usually have a strong negative bias—we usually
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Body language communicate the feeling.
