Emotion is something that is incredibly difficult to get across in a digital format. Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, or ending a tweet with “/s” to indicate sarcasm ...

That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

The brain is a funny organ. It controls consciousness and thought but, it turns out, it can also be tricked into responding to a few punctuation marks as if they were a human face: The brain perceives ...

While existing in some fashion throughout history, the ubiquitous and immortal smiley face has in fact been a fairly recent ...

When you see a colon and a parentheses, you know exactly what it means. The smiley face has become ubiquitous online, and psychologists have even looked into the ways it’s used in emails. Now, ...

Think you're being nice when you add a smiley face to the end of your email? According to one study, you could be conveying something else. The new study, titled the "The Dark Side of a Smiley," ...

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Crusaders in the fight against childhood obesity have discovered a powerful new weapon: the green smiley-face emoticon. When placed near cartons of plain, nonfat milk in school cafeterias, the ...