Jeff Hancock Biography

Jeff Hancock is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Communications at Cornell University. He focuses his study on profiles and the words we choose while sending text messages, writing online or composing emails. His idea is that while the impersonality of online interaction can encourage mild fibbing the fact that it leaves a permanent record of verifiable facts actually keeps us on the straight and narrow. Hancock has also studied people’s impressions of others online how we perceive others' impressions of us and how individual personalities interact with online groups.Jeff Hancock has written a handful of publications on online communication such as; Contact stratification and deception: blackberry messenger versus SMS use among students; Understanding unavailability in a world of constant connection; the importance of coordination devices in text-based, task-oriented conversations; Estimating the prevalence of deception in online review communities; and, Everyday deception or a few prolific liars? The prevalence of lies in text messaging.

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