Worth a thousand interpersonal words: Emoji as affective signals for relationship-oriented digital communication

• Amanda N. Gesselman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: agesselm@indiana.edu

  Affiliation The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6485-6404

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• Vivian P. Ta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Lake Forest College, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Justin R. Garcia

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5198-4578

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