Study participants looked at emojis representing happiness, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise and anger. Generally, the Westerners did better than the Chinese at recognizing emoji emotions but ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

(For instance, the emoji chosen to represent "disgust" in this study is classified as "confounded face" on Unicode.org, which possibly explains why there was difficulty across all participants in ...

In that moment, an emoji often deployed with a dose of irony turned curiously sincere. As laid-off designer Audrey Davis observed, she never thought the saluting face would make her “sob.” ...