For years, I resisted the exclamation point. In emails, I typed “Hi”; not “Hi!” “8:30”; not “8:30!” And “Disregard previous email. I found a large binder clip”; not “Disregard previous email!! I found ...

Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California report that exclamation point use is widely read as feminine and shapes impressions of warmth, ...

Symantec finds 5 out of the 6 most commonly used words in spam have exclamation points. These punctuation marks activate the human alarm system — speeding up brain processes and exaggerating judgment ...

Priscilla Jensen’s review of “An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!” by Florence Hazrat (Bookshelf, April 7) reminds me of something the novelist D. Keith Mano wrote in National ...

When Jon LaMantia, a Long Island-based business reporter, was in journalism school, his professor drilled one rule into his students: you get two exclamation points a year and no more. “So if you use ...

Yuen: Yep! One punctuation mark speaks loads about gender, tone and whether I’m mad at you Why do we rely on the exclamation point so often, even though we’ve been taught to eschew it? Our columnist ...

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 ...

Let's talk reality distortion. Reality distortion is quite a popular topic these days, what with our reality being bent into all shorts of shapes by the likes of the Apple Vision Pro. Also: The Apple ...