Post by Lone Wanderer on Aug 17, 2019 23:37:41 GMT
New research suggests that emoji users are better at making social connections.
It’s important to note that there are several limitations of this research, including the fact that the authors didn’t assess which types of emojis people sent. It could be that different emojis (e.g., kissy face, devil face, smiley face, etc.) are linked to different outcomes. Likewise, they only looked at sending emojis, not receiving them. It would, therefore, also be worth examining how emojis are perceived by others, and whether some people find them to be more appealing than others.
With all of that said, what do all of these findings tell us? In the words of the research authors, they suggest that “people who use emojis more often may be better at forming connections with others.” They believe that emoji users are more emotive in general—in other words, it's not necessarily the emojis themselves that are driving these effects; rather, emoji use may signify that one is more emotionally expressive, engages in more self-disclosure, and just has an easier time building intimacy. All of these factors are likely to lay the basis for a more active dating and sex life.
This suggests that people who are resistant to sending emojis for whatever reason just might be missing out.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-sex/201908/people-who-use-more-emojis-have-more-sex-and-get-more-dates
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221297
It’s important to note that there are several limitations of this research, including the fact that the authors didn’t assess which types of emojis people sent. It could be that different emojis (e.g., kissy face, devil face, smiley face, etc.) are linked to different outcomes. Likewise, they only looked at sending emojis, not receiving them. It would, therefore, also be worth examining how emojis are perceived by others, and whether some people find them to be more appealing than others.
With all of that said, what do all of these findings tell us? In the words of the research authors, they suggest that “people who use emojis more often may be better at forming connections with others.” They believe that emoji users are more emotive in general—in other words, it's not necessarily the emojis themselves that are driving these effects; rather, emoji use may signify that one is more emotionally expressive, engages in more self-disclosure, and just has an easier time building intimacy. All of these factors are likely to lay the basis for a more active dating and sex life.
This suggests that people who are resistant to sending emojis for whatever reason just might be missing out.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-sex/201908/people-who-use-more-emojis-have-more-sex-and-get-more-dates
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221297
