Do Your Emojis Match Your Emotions?

2021-06-13

In an article written by Courtney Seiter titled, The Psychology of Emojis, she wrote: Scientists have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain are activated as when we look at a real human face. Our mood changes, and we might even alter our facial expressions to match the emotion of the emoticon. The article was written in 2015 where she referenced a Swyft Media report that 74 percent of people in the US regularly use emojis in their c...

In an article written by Courtney Seiter titled, The Psychology of Emojis, she wrote:

Scientists have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain are activated as when we look at a real human face. Our mood changes, and we might even alter our facial expressions to match the emotion of the emoticon.

The article was written in 2015 where she referenced a Swyft Media report that 74 percent of people in the US regularly use emojis in their communication. If those were the numbers in 2015, I wonder what the numbers are now?

As much as I love emojis, what I've discovered is many of us use an emoji that doesn't match our real-life emotion. Since scientists have discovered a smiley face can activate parts of our real brain, why aren't we laughing out loud as we send a laughing out loud emoji?

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