Emojis: Insights, Affordances, and Possibilities for Psychological Science

Kaye, Linda; Hulme, Charles; Wall, Helen Joanne

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.10.007

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“…Moreover, Massaro's perceptual experiments (Massaro & Egan, 1996;Massaro, 1998), which manipulated the degree of conflicting audio and visual speech information, suggested that humans rely on both channels to understand the signal, giving more weight to the channel with the most reliable information. If we remove these additional communicative acts of the body, the comprehension of language is often impaired: 'emojis', for instance, were invented to remove the ambiguity in text messages (Lo, 2008;Kaye, Malone & Wall, 2017). In light of the universal use of bodily signals and cues to complement our words and refine our messages (e.g.…”

Section: Introduction: Language Evolution and The Comparative Apprmentioning

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Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

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The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and operationalization of cognitive concepts. However, in recent years, accumulating evidence from behavioural and neurobiological research has shown that both human and non‐human primate communication is inherently multimodal. It is therefore timely to integrate the study of gestural and vocal communication. Herein, we review evidence demonstrating that there is no clear difference between primate gestures and vocalizations in the extent to which they show evidence for the presence of key language properties: intentionality, reference, iconicity and turn‐taking. We also find high overlap in the neurobiological mechanisms producing primate gestures and vocalizations, as well as in ontogenetic flexibility. These findings confirm that human language had multimodal origins. Nonetheless, we note that in great apes, gestures seem to fulfil a carrying (i.e. predominantly informative) role in close‐range communication, whereas the opposite holds for face‐to‐face interactions of humans. This suggests an evolutionary shift in the carrying role from the gestural to the vocal stream, and we explore this transition in the carrying modality. Finally, we suggest that future studies should focus on the links between complex communication, sociality and cooperative tendency to strengthen the study of language origins.

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Section: Introduction: Language Evolution and The Comparative Apprmentioning

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Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

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“…It would therefore be good for future research to also test alternative ways of expressing emotions (e.g., verbally or nonverbally by studying facial expressions). Related to this, the generalizability of our findings might be tested in less anonymous settings, such as conversations by telephone or email that allow for other types of communication (see, e.g., the emerging research on using emojis to communicate emotions in written texts; Glikson, Cheshin, & Van Kleef, in press; Kaye, Malone, & Wall, ). Van Kleef () recently noted that interpersonal effects of emotions, including the signaling value of emotion communications, tend to be quite similar across expressive modalities.…”

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Communication of anger versus disappointment in bargaining and the moderating role of power

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Kleef

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Behavioral Decision Making

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Emotional expressions can have a pervasive impact on bargaining behavior and outcomes. This widely documented phenomenon implies that in their communications, bargainers may adjust their apparent emotions. In the current paper, we developed a paradigm to study the communication of anger and disappointment, two of the most commonly experienced emotions in bargaining. The results of three experiments show that bargainers often adjust the intensity of their emotions in their communicated emotions. The findings show a differentiated pattern, revealing that bargainers rather exaggerate their disappointment than their anger, especially when the target of their communication is in a high power position. The results are discussed and related to the social functional approach of emotions.

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“…These ideograms have evolved beyond facial expressions, and are increasingly used on digital platforms to demonstrate concepts and ideas. As a Japanese word meaning "picture character", emojis were initially created at the end of the twentieth century in order to improve and simplify digital messages [1,2]. They are increasingly used as a new language worldwide, conveying nonverbal communication cues and, in the case of the latter, substituting for the face-to-face conditions, and proving to exert a direct effect on readers' moods [3,4].…”

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“…These pictographs became so popular that the Oxford dictionary announced the "face with tears of joy" ( ) emoji as the 2015 word of the year [7]. More than 90% of the online users employ emojis to communicate complex concepts more effectively while using less words [2].…”

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Emojis in public health and how they might be used for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control

Lotfinejad

Assadi

Aelami

et al. 2020

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control

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Emojis are frequently used picture characters known as possible surrogates for non-verbal aspects of behavior. Considering the ability of emojis to enhance and facilitate communication, there has been a growing interest in studying their effects in scientific and health-related topics over the past few years. Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a field of medicine that is directly associated with specific behaviors. These include hand hygiene, which is the cornerstone of the prevention of healthcare-associated infections, and essential in stemming the spread of antimicrobial resistance. This paper aims to provide an overview of how emojis have been used in the medical and public health literature and proposes their possible use in IPC and hand hygiene to put forth a vision for the future research.

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Emojis: Insights, Affordances, and Possibilities for Psychological Science

Cited by 163 publications

References 8 publications

Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

Communication of anger versus disappointment in bargaining and the moderating role of power

Emojis in public health and how they might be used for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control

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