Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

New study shows emojis boost how caring and responsive you seem—helping friendships thrive, even through text.

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Emojis in text messages boost relationship satisfaction by making people feel emotionally heard and connected.

The use of emojis in text messaging improves perceived responsiveness and thereby enhances closeness and relationship ...

Parents are embracing this approach to protect their kids’ identities until they can make their own choices about how to ...

Using the digital representations of emotions and ideas in text and social media messages boosts closeness and relationship ...

A new study has shown that when it comes to developing closeness in your relationships, the emoji you send in your texts are ...

The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking ...

Emojis, as well as memes and other forms of short-form content, have become central to how we express ourselves and connect ...

In an oft-cited Washington Law Review article from that year, “Emojis and the Law,” Professor Eric Goldman referenced court ...