We are told that as millennials we use emojis way more than words to get our point across. Some have even speculated that we will soon go back to the era of communicating through hieroglyphs.

Gender, culture, and age all appear to play a role in how emojis are interpreted, according to a study published in PLOS ONE by Yihua Chen, Xingchen Yang and colleagues from the University of ...

Emojis are everywhere, be it your social media account or any personal chat service. We are all so used to use these emojis in our conversations that it seems pretty difficult to chat without them.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is an emoji worth? Surprisingly, it’s likely worth more than you think. A smiley face is simply a smiley face, right? Alas, it’s not anymore. At this point ...

We might not have realised it, but emojis have given us a powerful shorthand emotional vocabulary – even if most of us are cry-laughing 20% of the time Linguists, and perhaps everyone else, started ...

Given their increasing importance in communication, the new study was meant to investigate whether there are individual differences in the emotional labels that people choose to assign to emoji. Those ...

Emojis are used throughout online communications, but little is known about the way each individual perceives them. Researchers investigated how emoji comprehension differs by culture (UK vs China) ...