Putting Smiley Faces In Work Emails Makes You Look Incompetent, Study Finds

CBS Local — Sending a smiley face to someone may seem upbeat and innocent, but adding them to work emails could be giving the recipient a bad impression of you.
Reading “:)” in the content of a work email makes readers think that the sender is less competent than they would if the same email had no smiley face, according to a new study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
“Our findings provide first-time evidence that, contrary to actual