Dr. Poirier Highlights the Importance of Textisms in a New Publication

Dr. Rachel Poirier, Assistant professor of Psychology for the College of Arts and Sciences, recently had a publication with Frontiers in Psychology titled “Read. This. Slowly: mimicking spoken pauses in text messages” (2025). The publication was an analysis of how certain texisms such as sending one text or multiple texts, or using periods after every word for emphasis, often have differing perceived emotional impacts to recipients of the text. The publication has been highlighted both in the New York Post as well as DailyMail.

We are thrilled to have faculty members contributing to important discussions in academia that can have impacts on communication practices for personal or professional use.