A recent study revealed that people who use happy emojis do so to hide their true feelings, and may use them to express themselves.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Tokyo on about 1,289 volunteers from Japan who use these emojis in response to online conversations, according to the newspaper. "Frontiers in Psychology" local.
Its participants, who were mostly female and between the ages of 11 and 26, reported that happy emojis are often used to mask negative feelings and manage conversations to make the message sound more positive, when in fact they are not.
I also found that using more negative emojis, such as a sad face, actually expresses negative emotions and is very powerful.
The experts also found that people were more likely to use positive emoticons when they were feeling negative emotions, or when talking to people of higher status.
Moyo Liu, an expert in emotional behavior at the University of Tokyo who led the research, says that due to the proliferation of social networking sites, people are accustomed to beautifying their expressions and scrutinizing the appropriateness of their communication, warning that "This causes us to lose touch with our true feelings"according to his expression.
Liu also expressed concern that the increased frequency of online social contact will lead people to become more detached from their true feelings.
