Researchers selected 24 emojis—taken from Apple, Windows, Android, and WeChat platforms—and labeled them according to six emotional states: happy, disgusted, fearful, sad, surprised, and angry. They found women were able to more accurately interpret happy, fearful, sad, and angry emoji labels compared to men. Meanwhile, the interpretation of surprised and disgusted emojis showed no gender differences and were understood equally by both men and women.
A new study suggests men and women interpret emojis differently Share icon Image credits: Freepick To conduct their study, researchers recruited 270 people from the UK and 253 from China....