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In an article written by Courtney Seiter titled, The Psychology of Emojis, she wrote:
Scientists have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain are activated as when we look at a real human face. Our mood changes, and we might even alter our facial expressions to match the emotion of the emoticon.
The article was written in 2015 where she referenced a Swyft Media report that 74 percent of people in the US regularly use emojis in their communication. If those were the numbers in 2015, I wonder what the numbers are now?
As much as I love emojis, what I've discovered is many of us use an emoji that doesn't match our real-life emotion. Since scientists have discovered a smiley face can activate parts of our real brain, why aren't we laughing out loud as we send a laughing out loud emoji?
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