{"id":199,"date":"2024-03-22T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T01:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/chapter\/curiology-the-science-of-emojis-with-various-emoji-experts\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:05:44","slug":"curiology-the-science-of-emojis-with-various-emoji-experts","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/chapter\/curiology-the-science-of-emojis-with-various-emoji-experts\/","title":{"raw":"EM.13: Deep Dive - Curiology: The Science of Emojis with Various Emoji Experts","rendered":"EM.13: Deep Dive &#8211; Curiology: The Science of Emojis with Various Emoji Experts"},"content":{"raw":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[pb_glossary id=\"390\"]Approximate reading time:[\/pb_glossary] 155 minutes<\/p>\n\n<h1>Podcast Hosted by Alie Ward<\/h1>\nHere is one of my all time favourite podcasters, Alie Ward, interviewing world experts in the history, design, and psychology of emojis. Her scientist guests are fascinating. Here is a fun activity for you to try after listening to this interview in two parts. You may discover some of the emoji science we have covered in this chapter.\n<h2>Create Your Own New Emoji<\/h2>\nStep #1 - LISTEN to these two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alieward.com\/ologies\/curiology\">Podcast Part 1 and 2<\/a> (with transcript).\n\nStep #2 - Create your own new emoji that you wish you could use to describe a subtle, unusual, wacky emotion that you sometimes feel.\n<h2>Sneak Peak<\/h2>\nIn her interview with emoji psychology researchers and emoji designers Alie Ward asks the following questions:\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"What\u2019s the most embarrassing emoji?\"<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Were you on the board when they decided to make the syringe not have blood gushing out of it?\"<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"What do you think is the most underused emoji?<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"What\u2019s the emoji that you\u2019re like, \u201cThis one even exists?\u201d\"<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"What\u2019s one that you wish existed?\"<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"And what about the actual nuts and bolts of drawing it?\"<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Do you remember the controversy with the squid?\"<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"When you\u2019re working with Unicode, where there\u2019s a discussion about what\u2019s coming up next, are there any emojis that are on the chopping block?\"<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Can I ask you some questions from listeners?\u201d<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Who decided to make the universal person emoji yellow?\u201d<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDon\u2019t people associate yellow-people emojis as hate?\u201d<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhy do cats get facial expressions but not dogs?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAlie also discusses the following topics with her curiology experts.\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emoji fails<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That melting face emoji<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People Who Use Emojis Have More Sex<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worth a thousand interpersonal words: Emojisas affective signals for relationship-oriented digital communication<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuned in on senders\u2019 self-revelation: Emojis and emotional intelligence influence interpretation of WhatsApp messages<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mining the relationship between emoji usage patterns and personality<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expression and perception of identity through skin-toned emoji<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emojis as Digital Gestures<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creators of Emojis<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aubergine and peach emojis are used to refer to human anatomy<\/li>\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"glossary-term\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-describedby=\"definition\" href=\"#term_199_390\">Approximate reading time:<\/a> 155 minutes<\/p>\n<h1>Podcast Hosted by Alie Ward<\/h1>\n<p>Here is one of my all time favourite podcasters, Alie Ward, interviewing world experts in the history, design, and psychology of emojis. Her scientist guests are fascinating. Here is a fun activity for you to try after listening to this interview in two parts. 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