How emotional are emoji?: Exploring the effect of emotional valence on the processing of emoji stimuli

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Highlights：

• Some evidence of a processing advantage of positively-valenced stimuli over neutral ones.

• Emoji may be processed emotionally to some extent.

• Emoji may be processed in an equivalent way as face stimuli.

摘要

•Some evidence of a processing advantage of positively-valenced stimuli over neutral ones.•Emoji may be processed emotionally to some extent.•Emoji may be processed in an equivalent way as face stimuli.

论文关键词：Emoji,Emotional valence,Lexical decision,Faces,Words

论文评审过程：Received 27 August 2020, Revised 30 November 2020, Accepted 2 December 2020, Available online 6 December 2020, Version of Record 11 December 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106648