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@Natalie93131186 Other real-world implications include being able to apply our findings about text message interpretation when different emoji are used. So, if you wanted a text to be interpreted as more positive or negative, using a stronger valence emoji for clarification is possible.

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How Does Emoji Valence Impact Text Message Interpretation? ##JMUPsychSymposium2021

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@Natalie93131186 communicate and perceive messages on a day to day basis; communicating over zoom, email, text, etc. has become very widespread in the past year and this experiment is relative to those forms of communication.

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@Natalie93131186 The real world implications would be that because we are in a pandemic and rely heavily on computer mediated communication, this line of research is relevant to what is on going in the world and can help us to further understand how we

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@Peromyscus Therefore, we don’t think that it would have a huge impact on this study necessarily, however, something that would be interesting is taking this study and looking across different age groups to see if the results would differ depending on age.

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@Peromyscus This is something we have talked about a lot in our lab and how the meaning of emojis evolve so rapidly, specifically this article about the skull emoji. We only used participants from the SONA pool, so almost everyone was around the same age.

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@Applekj3 This study observed positive and negative emoji and their effects on neutral texts. Future research could investigate the use of these emoji in texts that aren't neutral.

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@Applekj3 For the norming procedures we used averages to figure out what texts/emoji to use and then we used independent samples t tests for experiment 1.