Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

This is most prominent with the little circular faces with cutesy facial expressions, but while they remain pretty much unchanged, some tweaks are made to other commonly used hand emoji as part of ...

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...

Emojipedia will give you a brief description of that emoji. For example, here's what Emojipedia writes about the " ‍ ️" (face in clouds) emoji: "A face that appears surrounded by ...

Whether it's a friendly smiley face or a cheeky wink ... while in the positive condition, a clapping hands emoji was added. In the second experiment, which involved 178 participants, these ...