Sunday, 11 March 2012

QWERTY Keyboard Makes People Sad

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Cognitive scientists Kyle Jasmin of University College London and Daniel Casasanto of The New School for Social Research, New York, have found that typing on a QWERTY keyboard makes people sad.

Many workers spend hours a day in front of a QWERTY keyboard on a PC - now scientists have found that the keyboard itself is shaping how we react to words. Oddly, people tend to react more positively to words filled with letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard. Words from the left side make people feel negative emotions.

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