May 27, 2013— -- intro: Emoticons can help us to either completely lose our minds or retain our sanity as we communicate with one another online and through texts. While a passive aggressive ...

But the emoticon has stuck for 30 years. Devising the emoticon is not like inventing the light bulb, but it still might illuminate something about creativity.

It’s no wonder, then, that Facebook has invested in developing sophisticated picture-like emoticons. Last year, psychologist Dacher Keltner of University of California, Berkeley was commissioned ...

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...

When To Use the Like Emoticon (or Avoid It) Gottsman says the OG "like" emoticon means "Got it, good job and OK." Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Although an emoticon may look like a smile, a frown or any number of facial expressions, it doesn’t represent a face, as many internet users assume. It’s actually intended to convey a feeling ...

Right now there’s only 21 emoticons in the menu, including the standard frown and wink, as well as a heart, devil, and the Like icon. Click one, and the text code for it will be added to your chat.

(03-22) 13:47 PDT San Francisco-- They're cuddly, cartoonish expressions of love, sadness and anger, yet some serious science went into Facebook's messaging emoticons. Called Stickers, these ...

Sure doesn’t seem like it. While normal emoticons did produce a large N170 signal, inverted emoticons produced a smaller one (below), the researchers report in a 2014 issue of Social Neuroscience.

Something weirdly enlightening happened to me during a tech-support chat today. Chatting online with customer service agent “Jared,” I mistyped a number that caused some confusion in our ...