Trust required.
That's happy news for the more sarcastically inclined, but before you get carried away, the researchers caution that this finding shouldn't be taken as a blank check to be sarcastic whenever and wherever the mood strikes you. If you don't want to hurt people and burn bridges, you need to restrict your remarks to contexts where trust has already been established.
"While most previous research seems to suggest that sarcasm is detrimental to effective communication because it is perceived to be more contemptuous than sincerity, we found that, unlike sarcasm between parties who distrust each other, sarcasm between individuals who share a trusting relationship does not generate more contempt than sincerity," Galinsky notes.
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