Okay, so its not really breaking news. More anonymous forms of communication tend to foster more truthful and more untruthful communication than standard modes of communication wherein all parties doing the communication are known to one another. None-the-less, this new study goes a long way toward quantifying and explaining some of these commonly-held assumptions:
Deception in cyberspace: A comparison of text-only vs. avatar-supported medium
By Holtjona Galanxhi and Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
