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Winking face emoticon most effective to convey sarcasm
The simple winking face emoticon may be the most effective device to convey sarcasm in an ambiguous message, according to new study. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK conducted two experiments involving nearly 200 undergraduate students.
London: The simple winking face emoticon may be the most effective device to convey sarcasm in an ambiguous message, according to new study. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK conducted two experiments involving nearly 200 undergraduate students.
In the first experiment the context of each message was made clear, making any sarcasm pretty unambiguous. In the second, no explicit context was described, so a message from one person to another could be taken literally or sarcastically.
Across the two experiments, the researchers tested the effect of various emoticons and punctuation on the students' perceptions of each message's sarcasm, and their perceptions of its likely emotional impact on the recipient.
The emoticons tested were the winking face ;-) and the tongue face:-P.
