Health
Are emoji helping your physician communicate better? What new research tells us
You may have heard it said before that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what about an emoji?
Jun 13, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Using emoji to measure health
Most of us now use emoji to convey feelings or thoughts, a practice that has become ubiquitous along with the use of smartphones. Could such emoji have use in medical communication?
Jun 13, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Scientists find that people use emoji to hide, as well as show, their feelings
Have you ever received an unwanted gift and still said 'thank you'? This choice to hide a negative emotion is a display rule—one of many which define socially appropriate responses to emotions. Although display rules can ...
Mar 3, 2023
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Ophthalmology
Make glasses cool with new emojis, urges UK schoolgirl
British schoolgirl Lowri Moore is just 13 but has achieved a lot in her short life, championing children who like her wear glasses.
Nov 3, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Emo-jional rescue: Researchers create tool to measure the emotion in emojis
How much is really known about those smiley faces staring back at from smartphone screens? Anyone who has ever wondered if the people sending them are really that happy is not alone.
Sep 22, 2022
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Medical research
Emoji are shown to be as effective as numerical pain scales in judging patient pain levels in the hospital
The use of emoji to pictorially communicate the level of pain experienced by patients in the hospital is equivalent to the conventional numeric rating scale, and could offer distinct advantages in improving health care in ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Health
Emoji are proposed as a powerful way for patients and doctors to communicate
Emoji, that universal lexicon of colorful and clever symbols meant to replace the written and spoken word, could be a valuable tool in the field of medicine, allowing patients to better communicate symptoms, concerns, and ...
Sep 7, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Positive vibes only: Forego negative texts or risk being labelled a downer
A new study from researchers at the University of Ottawa's School of Psychology has found that using negative emojis in text messages produces a negative perception of the sender regardless of their true intent.
Feb 22, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Our cultural backgrounds influence how we interpret emojis, study finds
For University of Toronto Mississauga undergraduate student Boting Gao, emojis are more than just a way to convey a sentiment.
Jul 23, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Our brains process irony in emojis, words in the same way
That winky-face emoji that you use at the end of a text isn't just a fun picture added to your sentence. It can convey linguistic meaning that changes the interpretation of the sentence, a new study finds.
Sep 6, 2018
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