Non-verbal expressivity in alexithymia: A study on emoji use in text messaging across varying levels of alexithymia |
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| Institution: | 1. Northumbria University, Marketing, Operations and Systems Department, Sutherland Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, United Kingdom;2. The KU Leuven, Research Centre for Marketing and Consumer Science, Campus Leuven, Behavioral Engineering Group, Naamsestraat 69 – box 3545, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;3. The KU Leuven, Research Centre for Marketing and Consumer Science, Behavioral Engineering Group, Naamsestraat 69 – box 3545, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;1. Institute of Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany;1. Independent Researcher Working with Bournemouth University, 50 Upper South Wraxall, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 2SE, England, United Kingdom;2. Bournemouth University, Department of Psychology, Poole House P114, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, England, United Kingdom;3. Bournemouth University, Department of Design & Engineering, Poole House P115, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, England, United Kingdom;4. London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, Holborn, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom;5. Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Psychology, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England, United Kingdom;1. Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland;3. Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, United States;1. The Mind Research Network: A Division of Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA;2. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
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| Abstract: | The present study examined whether emoji use would be quantitatively and/or qualitatively altered in alexithymia. 646 individuals (Mean Age = 23.11, SD = 7.03; 424 Female) with varying levels of alexithymia took part in a series of vignettes where they were positioned as senders of hypothetical text messages. Participants were tasked to opt in or out of tagging an emoji onto positive and negative text messages. Emoji use frequency was diminished at the high end of the alexithymic continuum, relative to the middle and low spectrums. However, emoji for positive and negative text messages were used with similar patterns of frequency across alexithymic groups of varying severity, suggesting that emoji use is quantitatively but not qualitatively altered in alexithymia. |
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| Keywords: | Alexithymia Emoji Computer-mediated communication Text messaging |
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