We're all familiar with the smiley emoticon, and its power to add levity, flirtation, and occasionally passive-aggression to our texts, chats, and e-mails. But according to researchers, our brains ...

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...

While emoticons have probably been independently invented many times—the earliest documented use of the smiley face with a nose, :-), comes in 1982—Herrick very well could have been the first.

What is your feeling on using emoticons (smiley faces, etc.) in professional emails? My first reaction is no, they are too childish and unprofessional, but then I find myself sometimes wanting to ...

The digital smiley is 31 years old, but emoticons recur throughout modern history.

Contrary to what you might think, new research suggests using smiley face emoji in the workplace could be miffing colleagues and customers.

Agreement with The Smiley Company provides the universally known emoticons with its own sonic identity in the metaverse, powered by Voicemod’s real-time voice and audio capabilities ...

The emoticon evolved in a matter of months, Fahlman writes — people made emoticons that looked like the pope, Abraham Lincoln, and a person wearing glasses. He doesn't seem to like emoji, though.

The program, The Upside With Tavis Smiley, will be streamed online and shown on The Word Network, a religious-oriented cable and satellite channel directed at black viewers.

New research claims we react to emoticons in the same way we react to an actual human face. But are these digital smiles and winks the future of communication or merely an annoying extension of ...

Scientific study into emoticons sounds barmy but they are so embedded in text and computer speak that I guess it was inevitable. The study may have focused on the reaction of its subjects to ...