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If we were to strip a sample of your email messages of your name and other personally identifying information, what could others infer from just your writing style? Recently, McAndrew & De Jonge (2011) provided fabricated, unsigned messages to undergraduate participants that were written either in the first or third person, and either included or excluded typographical errors and expressive punctuation (question marks and exclamation points). One hundred sixty-six participants rated the message authors on a number of dimensions and perceived the authors of third person messages and those lacking expressive punctuation as angrier and more likely to be supervisors (versus subordinates). In addition, messages without the question marks and exclamation points were seen as more likely to be written by males. Research on electronic person perception has been exploding, and social psychologists are delving deeper into the inferences people make based on even brief online cyber encounters and Facebook profiles.