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Research suggests that people overestimate the importance of minimal social cues in online contexts. In new relationships, there is also a tendency to use minimal cues to fill in the gaps and assume people we like are similar to ourselves. Extending the literature on impression formation in computer-mediated communication, we investigated the content and extent of impressions formed about an online...