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 ...

The digital smiley is 31 years old, but emoticons recur throughout modern history. ... the simple sideways smiley face still reigns in electronic communication. ILLUSTRATION: Ben Wiseman.

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 ...

Thankfully, the website linked to above lists various Asian emoticons and their respective meanings. For example, (^3^) translates into kiss. I can kind of see it.

Smiley, frown and wink face: Are we all victims of a great emoticon trick? Ross McGuinness for Metro Published February 27, 2014 6:00am Updated December 10, 2019 11:37am ...

She also noted that smileys undermine information sharing. The experiment also showed that, when anonymous, senders who included smiley face emoticons in their emails were often presumed to be women.

Smiley like you mean it: how emoticons get in your head Published: January 15, 2014 6:43pm EST. Owen Churches, Flinders University. Author. Owen Churches ...

Having first appeared in the 1980s, the pattern of brain activity triggered by looking at an emoticon smiley face is now the same as when someone sees a real smiling human face, scientists from ...

Scott Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted the first emoticon at 11:44 a.m. 25 years ago. GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — It was a serious contribution to the ...

The first emoticon — the text smiley — sprang into existence 40 years ago on Sept. 19, 1982, and emojis have been part of online life ever since.

Thirty-three years ago today, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University invented the emoticon. Scott E. Fahlman, along with other members of CMU's computer science community, used online "bulletin ...