Investigating effects of emoji on neutral narrative text: Evidence from eye movements and perceived emotional valence

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Highlights：

• Readers fixated longer on emoji positioned at the end of a sentence than the start.

• Centre-sentence first-pass reading was not affected by emoji position or expression.

• Sentences and middle-position words were re-read more when emoji were at the end.

• Emoji did not appear to influence readers on perceptions of sentence emotionality.

摘要

•Readers fixated longer on emoji positioned at the end of a sentence than the start.•Centre-sentence first-pass reading was not affected by emoji position or expression.•Sentences and middle-position words were re-read more when emoji were at the end.•Emoji did not appear to influence readers on perceptions of sentence emotionality.

论文关键词：Emoji,Reading,Eye movements,Valence,Emotion

论文评审过程：Received 24 September 2019, Revised 17 February 2020, Accepted 29 March 2020, Available online 3 April 2020, Version of Record 9 April 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106361