While it may seem like a relic of the past, there's still a certain gravitas to signing your name on the dotted line. It's faster and more efficient to mimic the process through the use of an "e-signature." "While many common e-signatures objectively perform the same function as signing by hand, they do not exert the same symbolic weight in subsequent decision-making," writes Eileen Chou, assistant professor of public policy at the University of Virginia. "Seven studies consistently demonstrate these e-signatures' ineffectiveness for curbing indiv...