Heart emoji, written as <3, has been chosen recently as the international word of 2014, revealed reporters.
Brain Treats Emoticons as Real Faces: Study
It's time we use emoticons carefully as a study says that now our brains are trained to treat them as real human faces and emotions.
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Emoji and other emoticon are driving a radical change in the evolution of the English language as pictographs become ingrained into the world's vocabulary, the Mirror reported.
The list was complied by the 15th annual survey of the English language by the the Global Language Monitor which analyses the internet, social media including Twitter and print and electronic news media.
Each emoji represents an emotion, expression, or state of mind, or a person, place or thing and there are now some 722 characters, with another 250 being made available during the next year, and 37 more due for approval in June 2015.
Source: ANI
Each emoji represents an emotion, expression, or state of mind, or a person, place or thing and there are now some 722 characters, with another 250 being made available during the next year, and 37 more due for approval in June 2015.
Source: ANI
Positive Effect of Negative Emotions: Chocolate Tastes Better When You Are Dieting
Kelly Goldsmith and her colleagues found that guilt activates cognitions related to pleasures which in turn increase the pleasure experienced from consumption.
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Human Brain Registers 'Smiley Face' Emoticon as Real Facial Expression: ResearchThe human brain registers smiley face emoticon as a real facial expression, reveals a new study. | Advertisement
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Now Computers can Read Emotions Through Lip - Reading!
Researchers have developed a computer that has the ability to decode human emotions by studying lip pattern
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