Not a lot of people are sending messages flush with 💩 emoji. Users aren’t accenting outraged tweets with 😱 faces. No, according to a new report from Apple, most emoji users are crying tears of joy.

Today there are north of 3,500 accepted emoji characters. They appear in politics, movies, texts, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. Keith Houston follows ...

"Emoji blew up right around 2011," said Laura Miller in Slate, and we're lucky they did. So many more of our online text interactions would have led to misunderstandings and arguments without the ...

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Contextual factors may affect if tears are perceived as sincere or manipulative tears, including the gender and perceived warmth of the crier A new study adds to evidence suggesting that people’s ...