Anna Faris as Jane F in ‘Smiley Face’ (Photo: First Look International/Everett Collection) In the absence of specific instructions from the screenwriter, the actress took her inspiration from the ...

It has been scientifically proven that the more you smile the more people like you, but it turns out this this pattern might not necessarily translate all that well in the language of emoji.

Tacking on a smiley face emoji or a quick “:)” to your work emails might seem like a good idea at first — maybe you’ll finally come off as the warm and inviting person you’re pretending to be — but ...

Using the smiley face emoji with colleagues may not give off the impression you’re searching for. At first glance, the smiley face emoji is harmless: a yellow, wide-eyed animated circular grin that ...

Text messages and chats online can include a combination of words, pictures and emoji to convey a message. Words and pictures can be easy to understand, but when someone sends emoji you might feel ...

Look, I’m no emoji expert, but there’s one thing I do know: The basic smiley emoji is a goddamn liar. And using it makes you a liar, too. I first noticed the fraudulence of this emoji’s yellow visage ...

You’ve come a long way, smiley face emoji. You’re now officially art, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, just like the Picassos and the Jackson Pollocks. Your crew has its ...

These days, emoji are nearly as common as text. Some 6 billion of the minute images are sent around the world every day. But the classic smiley-face emoji has actually been around for a long time. Now ...

When someone who usually texts with emojis suddenly goes cold—no faces, no punctuation softeners—the absence becomes its own ...