In other words, these people are more likely judging you for your mistakes than everyone else.
In all likelihood, grammar police tend to be disagreeable, close-minded, and painstaking introverts.
In this experiment, we examined the social judgments that readers made about the writers.
But there were absolutely certain personality types that judged the typo-riddled applicants more harshly.
They write:
Both typos and grammos had a negative impact on the evaluation scale.
This negative impact was not modulated by age, education, electronic communication frequency, or pleasure reading time.
In contrast, personality traits did modulate assessments, and did so in distinct ways for grammos and typos.
Perhaps because less agreeable people are less tolerant of deviations from convention, the researchers write.
The research has beenpublished in PLOS One.
source: www.techworm.net
