We use them to substitute the lack of sight of our face. We want to portray emotion which does affect the meaning of our words. That's it. People that overuse emotes are simply not accustomed to online communication, so they appear obnoxious, random or just hard to understand in general. Emotes are a language. But I doubt there's enough space for a whole science.
Yes, I'd say they're close to their own language than anything else. You know what the emoji is and that little picture sums up a lot of words or "feelings" with just a simple picture.
Obama, you've been one hell of a President, it's gonna be weird calling you Mr. Obama and not President Obama. As a truly great man once said, " This isn't a period, this is a comma." -Former President Barack Obama 2017
+Star Dreamers Except politics literally effects every aspect of life including science. For example, denying climate change effects science(Politicians especially).
My entire family died from a house fire,I can still hear their screams begging me for help but I ran out and watched,I was only wearing my pajamas,too young to know what to do so I simply ran,I could say I was lucky waking up first but I'd argue I was the unluckiest of all. :* My brother tried climbing out,covered and engulfed in flames,he was doing everything he had learned to save himself from the blaze,yet the fire was still overpowering him,he fell on the fence after jumping from his second story window,glass was laid across the concrete surface that had broken his leg,he could move,though it was more like flailing than anything else,desperately rolling around trying to extinguish the fire but his leg was stopping him from fully rolling. ;P My parents were fast asleep they burned quickly, too quick for me to hear them,but my sister was awake,she was only 6 or so at the time,she didn't climb out,she just stood in her room,screaming at me to help,but I was motionless,my body refused to move so I stood there too terrified by the situation to do anything of use. :O She burned slowly,he flesh searing as the fire raged,the smoke clouded the windows and her face,her painful screams could still be heard throughout the neighborhood. :) I lost everything in that fire,I may have lost my possesions,my family and my home,but the most important thing I lost that night was my sanity. :P
the big threat of keeping a pet like a tiger is that the urge to kill is instinctive, not learned. Experts who live with tigers and other big cats since birth can operate around them only because the cats accept them as a member of their pack, and so they treat the humans like other cats. Since the signals sent to the mice were subconscious, not "hey you should go kill that stick" it might help with instinct as well. TLDR yeah i guess but i'm not an expert so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Solid Banana i think the bigger problem is that there just really big. If a house cat gets mad and swats at you you might get a scratch and you know it just needs some space its not trying to hurt you its just a reaction. If a tame tiger swats at you for the same reason it might not want to hurt you but it's swat can break your neck.
Assuming it can be applied to tigers -it would just make them less willing/able to kill us for food (something they are already less inclined to do). They probably will be still quite able to kill us if we threaten them or otherwise piss them off. also cats don't have packs.
just wait, soon that will be emojis for every English word, then an emoji for every unique sound and emoji will be another language. One day Americans will actually bother to know two languages.
Before I even get too far into this video I'd like to say that I love the way you guys ask questions and then form your videos around those questions. Science is all about questioning everything and then going through the journey of finding the answer!
Every time I want to use an emoji to clarify what I'm communicating, I find that the correct facial expression emoji doesn't exist. There seems to be quite a lot of emojis but they're missing a crap ton of expressions
I remember when there were just emoticons. Great way to clarify emotional content of a text-only online message. Emails/texts from older folks tend to sound very stern, or even angry, due to the formal structure and lack of emotional context.
That selection of emojis could be interpreted very differently from what you stated... Just as a quick example: They electrocuted a bunch of mice to death. Could've done a mouse + DNA double helix + flashlight = tiger. Or wolf. Or something that is a hunting predator.
For me, emojis don't help in conveying any emotion outside of "playfully X," where X is some other emotion. Saying "I am worried about my sick cat" does not become more heartfelt with a teary emoji, because I have seen that same damn icon a billion times on Facebook crap like "I'm suffering from post-ate-all-my-ice-cream depression. ~sad face~ Better buy some more!!!! ~laughing face~" That emoji is only good for playfully sad, as opposed to actual sadness. And honestly, I have a hard time believing that anyone gets any proper emotion from them beyond "playfully X." They're so damn colorful in a format that is naturally very monochromatic, text.
lets title the video "the psychology of emojis" but talk about killer mice instead. what a concept. wish it would work for my English papers. I could start on the correct topic then talk about whatever I want.
1:36 I have never considered how much it is important to be analysed by a psychologist who also happens to be a cyborg - and yet, you guys succeeded in convincing me the answer is a lot; kudos, Scishow.
There was a fantastic paper a year or two back that talked about the emotional impact of the way emojis appear on different platform - Apple vs Android vs Facebook, etc. Since the emojis vary from platform to platform, the writer hypothesized the difference in communciation when using emojis. Fascinating stuff!
I definitely prefer texting people who use the occasional emoji. It makes texting more personable and fun. Emoji's do for a fact elicit an emotional response. When someone sends a text but adds flirty emojis it improves my mood and makes me more flirty.
I've known the emoji thing to be true for sometime. People have always thought of me online as serious, deep toned or stoic when behind the monitor even though I'm often always cracking smiles or are far from any negative emotions, but people misconstrue a statement or question of me as though I'm like their Drill Sergeant just because I didn't put WINKY FACE at the end of the sentence.
Belgium is always randomly mentioned in a looooot of American things... Yet when you ask about their knowledge of Belgium, the most they can say is: Waffles and Beer?
actually no,hieroglyphics mostly represented sounds...sorry. there are a few exceptions,if you had (symbols for child) then (male figure) it's a boy but otherwise they were just like (wavy line) = *ch* sound. the most interesting this is that there were no vowels in ancient languages,people at the time just knew how to pronounce it. it's smthng lk ths bt t thm lt clrr. because of this we don't know how to pronounce ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics,we know a few words because of the Romans who wrote names in their latin alphabet but otherwise,nothing else.
Hank you're telling me that scientists are recreating the "outlandish, convoluted plot" of the movie "Kingsman" when everyone goes on a killing rampage because their brains were stimulated by the bad guy. This would've been the first step in research and development for such a plot. Just saying.
In the Name of Science, I once texted my fiance for 3 Days without emojis... He couldn't deal with the lack of emotions that he was experiencing and actually got a near panic attack! Alot of insecurities and negative thinking...
Sooo what you're saying is that the villain in Zootopia could've gone even further?! Even the mice could have gone savage?! Regarding the emojis, I suspect that they'll hit on some similar pathways as language since many linguists see them as accutrements to language. I can't remember what the term is but they aren't really their own language but assist with comprehending it. Look up Gretchen McCullough for more info if you're interested.
Am I the only one who gets really pissed off when people constantly spamming emojis in conversations? Like 5 winky faces with an upside down smiling face and heart eyes in one text message? I think it may be just because I imagine them experiencing none of the emotions that the emojis actually cover and just staring blank-faced at their phone spamming irrelevant emojis trying to make it seem like they are reacting more than they really are.
People who use emojis in their comments be like: Ate spaghetti with a white shirt, didn't get sauce on it 😊😀😁😂😂😃😈😇😅😄😄😉😯😐😑😕😴😢😬😠😮😣😤😥😦😟😩😩😧😨😱😲😳😵😶😛😍😒😞😷😜😝😋😗😙😙😌😎😎😎😎😔😏🙅🙍🙎🙆😸😻🙅😪😖🙋😸😾👦👧😽👨👦👵👬👪👩💏👵👵👵👶👳💅💇👃❤💋👄👽👾👾👃❤👅💟👍👎👋👏✊🐦🐺🐸🐄🐥🐥
You know who'd really do well to start studying emojis more? Best buy. If you've heard their radio commercial for cell phone plans, you realize they're about 30 years to old to begin grasping emojis and their relevance/usage in today's society.
Isn't anyone else concerned about the possibility of someone igniting these hunting instincts in humans? I understand the neurons don't increase aggression, but it still seems pretty similar.
When you start falling asleep half way through and think scientist use emojis to make mice kill
lmao, thats me
XD
LOL, Dude that was Too perfect XD
XX-gaming fOMG MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
Exactly me
We use them to substitute the lack of sight of our face. We want to portray emotion which does affect the meaning of our words. That's it.
People that overuse emotes are simply not accustomed to online communication, so they appear obnoxious, random or just hard to understand in general. Emotes are a language. But I doubt there's enough space for a whole science.
you can make some science from a language so, yeah it'll probably be a science later
Yes, I'd say they're close to their own language than anything else. You know what the emoji is and that little picture sums up a lot of words or "feelings" with just a simple picture.
Pan Limak you sound smart 🤓
Pan Limak clearly didn't watch the video
Simply untrue. Why would I comment otherwise?
If people keep using pictures to communicate, eventually they'll become more abstracted until they represent individual sounds.
and then those pictures will become letters and we'll be back where we started.
you sure about that cause :) doesn't sound like anything to me
Bruce Dunn logographs?
Hieroglyphics? Maybe the ancient Egyptians were on to something.
Master Therion
They had great 💡s. We're just ♻️ing the concepts they had in ancient ⏲️s.
wait a second. How did we go from emojis to killer mice?
Obama, you've been one hell of a President, it's gonna be weird calling you Mr. Obama and not President Obama. As a truly great man once said, " This isn't a period, this is a comma." -Former President Barack Obama 2017
Don't ex Presidents still get to be called President in the U.S.?
The door is to the left... Oh, and don't forget to take your politics out with you.
yeah they're always called mr president
Stop trying to turn scishow into some political channel. It's a science channel.
+Star Dreamers Except politics literally effects every aspect of life including science. For example, denying climate change effects science(Politicians especially).
I am addicted to ending my sentences with ":P" :P.
please help me :P
Well i can try. :)
It worked! :P
shit... :P
My entire family died from a house fire,I can still hear their screams begging me for help but I ran out and watched,I was only wearing my pajamas,too young to know what to do so I simply ran,I could say I was lucky waking up first but I'd argue I was the unluckiest of all. :*
My brother tried climbing out,covered and engulfed in flames,he was doing everything he had learned to save himself from the blaze,yet the fire was still overpowering him,he fell on the fence after jumping from his second story window,glass was laid across the concrete surface that had broken his leg,he could move,though it was more like flailing than anything else,desperately rolling around trying to extinguish the fire but his leg was stopping him from fully rolling. ;P
My parents were fast asleep they burned quickly, too quick for me to hear them,but my sister was awake,she was only 6 or so at the time,she didn't climb out,she just stood in her room,screaming at me to help,but I was motionless,my body refused to move so I stood there too terrified by the situation to do anything of use. :O
She burned slowly,he flesh searing as the fire raged,the smoke clouded the windows and her face,her painful screams could still be heard throughout the neighborhood. :)
I lost everything in that fire,I may have lost my possesions,my family and my home,but the most important thing I lost that night was my sanity. :P
I suffer from the same addiction.. though I've never used a colon for the eyes =P
"I don't like emojis. They're coarse and rough and irritating, and they get everywhere."
so on the killer mice thing dose that mean we can make dociel pet tigers
Nah, that's just the hunting part. You'd probably have to find the aggression part for making something docile.
the big threat of keeping a pet like a tiger is that the urge to kill is instinctive, not learned. Experts who live with tigers and other big cats since birth can operate around them only because the cats accept them as a member of their pack, and so they treat the humans like other cats. Since the signals sent to the mice were subconscious, not "hey you should go kill that stick" it might help with instinct as well.
TLDR yeah i guess but i'm not an expert so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Solid Banana i think the bigger problem is that there just really big. If a house cat gets mad and swats at you you might get a scratch and you know it just needs some space its not trying to hurt you its just a reaction. If a tame tiger swats at you for the same reason it might not want to hurt you but it's swat can break your neck.
Assuming it can be applied to tigers -it would just make them less willing/able to kill us for food (something they are already less inclined to do).
They probably will be still quite able to kill us if we threaten them or otherwise piss them off.
also cats don't have packs.
Aaron Smith
Great we're going back to hieroglyphics
just wait, soon that will be emojis for every English word, then an emoji for every unique sound and emoji will be another language. One day Americans will actually bother to know two languages.
"We will witness the dawn of a new Emoji science!" -SciShow, 2017
I find emoticon are more appealing than emoji
Could you please do an episode on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture when I was 19 and I would love for people to learn more about them!
phantasm1234
Sounds cool, do it guys
Your dedication is almost scary, i wouldn't be surprised if you took your time to make a bot.
phantasm1234 the silent killer ,
( archer reference )
phantasm1234 Keep saying this on their videos and you'll be the new litojonny
phantasm1234 One day you will... One day...
-I don't like emojis- o_O
"I don't like emoji' *proceeds to post an emoji right afterwards*
hole - 1st drill press channel ~_^
-i don't like when you type like this- -
hole - 1st drill press channel -How did you do that-?
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The flag of Belgium has to be the best emoji out there.
This is my totally neutral opinion as someone from Belgium.
I'm glad they are studying the psychology of emojis. I know one emoji who could really benefit from some psychological help. She's crazy...
Killer mice sounds like the name of an alt metal band
wow never realized the subject was changed to killer mice....
R.I.P. emoji killing killer mice
Before I even get too far into this video I'd like to say that I love the way you guys ask questions and then form your videos around those questions. Science is all about questioning everything and then going through the journey of finding the answer!
I'm looking forward to all the bad movies and TV crime show episodes based on that mouse research.
Since it's about mice, nobody noticed how they basically invented 28-Days-Later Zombies.
Every time I want to use an emoji to clarify what I'm communicating, I find that the correct facial expression emoji doesn't exist. There seems to be quite a lot of emojis but they're missing a crap ton of expressions
I remember when there were just emoticons. Great way to clarify emotional content of a text-only online message. Emails/texts from older folks tend to sound very stern, or even angry, due to the formal structure and lack of emotional context.
Our species has used pictograms as a form of speech for hundreds of thousands of years. It's not surprising it's part of the world of texting as well.
That selection of emojis could be interpreted very differently from what you stated... Just as a quick example: They electrocuted a bunch of mice to death.
Could've done a mouse + DNA double helix + flashlight = tiger. Or wolf. Or something that is a hunting predator.
I didn't learn anything thing about emojis but now I am really knowledgable about killer mice!🙄
The activated mice attacked sticks and bottlecaps. So, they turned the mice into cats?
Thank you for making this video, i really appreciate the time you took too make this video possible. It taught me something very interesting.
This news on mice gets us one step closer into making that Church scene from Kingsman: The Secret Service into a reality. =D
oops, accidentally read "the psychology of cancer", How silly
You sure you misread it?
lol, 9Gagger detected
I'm not a fan of emojis, the art is always creepy to me. I like doing my own little typefaces and stuff
Me too \_ o.o _/
Amiibo Charles
Me three! \owo/
I'll take creepy over cringey I guess
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well, they are still emojis (or emoticons). Doesn't matter if it's typed or a picture.
Cyberpsychology. Didn't ever think that'd be a thing.
For me, emojis don't help in conveying any emotion outside of "playfully X," where X is some other emotion. Saying "I am worried about my sick cat" does not become more heartfelt with a teary emoji, because I have seen that same damn icon a billion times on Facebook crap like "I'm suffering from post-ate-all-my-ice-cream depression. ~sad face~ Better buy some more!!!! ~laughing face~" That emoji is only good for playfully sad, as opposed to actual sadness.
And honestly, I have a hard time believing that anyone gets any proper emotion from them beyond "playfully X." They're so damn colorful in a format that is naturally very monochromatic, text.
lets title the video "the psychology of emojis" but talk about killer mice instead. what a concept. wish it would work for my English papers. I could start on the correct topic then talk about whatever I want.
Soooo, we can now create armies of killer mice. Great. Good work guys. You are now 20% closer to becoming supervillains.
Well, never knew the rat plague from Dishonored could be such a potencial apocalyptic scenario
The emoji art in some places is quite bad and/or creepy, you still can't beat good old emoticons >:3.
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Shut up and get in the bag
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H I. I M. A N. E M O J I.
asyoucanseeimanemoji
Nebby GET IN THE FUCKING BAG!👜
I'm pretty sure this killer mice research is how the movie "28 Days Later" started.
I like how the emojis show up in the suggestions below when you type
1:36 I have never considered how much it is important to be analysed by a psychologist who also happens to be a cyborg - and yet, you guys succeeded in convincing me the answer is a lot; kudos, Scishow.
Emojis are pure cancer.
_says the person with a profile pic that is almost an emojie_
it is not
Xiefux Well it is a face that is expressing an emotion. So some might say it's almost an emoji, as that is what emojis are used for.
Xiefux ok then, metamorphic rock
Emoji Analysis will help send us to get to mars and find trolls online.
There was a fantastic paper a year or two back that talked about the emotional impact of the way emojis appear on different platform - Apple vs Android vs Facebook, etc. Since the emojis vary from platform to platform, the writer hypothesized the difference in communciation when using emojis. Fascinating stuff!
Every time I see something written in emoji my brain says sorry I don't speak emoji.
I use to hate emojis until I realized that emojis are an art form and truly another language
I can't wait for the first book to be written entirely in emojis to come out
Killer mice? Sounds like it would make a great horror b-movie.
Good think we have some specialists ready when that cyberbrain sclerosis becomes a thing.
I definitely prefer texting people who use the occasional emoji. It makes texting more personable and fun. Emoji's do for a fact elicit an emotional response. When someone sends a text but adds flirty emojis it improves my mood and makes me more flirty.
I've known the emoji thing to be true for sometime. People have always thought of me online as serious, deep toned or stoic when behind the monitor even though I'm often always cracking smiles or are far from any negative emotions, but people misconstrue a statement or question of me as though I'm like their Drill Sergeant just because I didn't put WINKY FACE at the end of the sentence.
why so serious? 😏
XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
When you said "of course, the flag of belgium" I was so proud!!! 0:55
when he said "Cyber physiologists" i thought "is that really a thing" and he read my mind!
Belgium is always randomly mentioned in a looooot of American things... Yet when you ask about their knowledge of Belgium, the most they can say is: Waffles and Beer?
Lina C guess it's just fun to say
Emojis are like dreams. Nobody cares about them unless they're yours.
Dr: what's wrong. me: every time I see a serious emoji I want to die. Dr: holy shit we need to do a study on this.
Lmao the emoji movie trailer came up as an ad 😂😂😂
Killer mice on demand, thank god i have 3 cats, wait, killer cats on demand?!
The mice researchers should take a look at Zootopia. It's a really horrifying discovery they've made, in my opinion.
I wasn't really paying attention to the video so I heard "mice naturally hump crickets" instead of "hunt crickets" and I was very confused
That transition from emojis to mice is like in my essays; very abrupt and not very smooth. Love the videos anyway, though!
the buttons on your blouse look like little companion cubes ❤
I never moved past emoticons because I don't really like emojis. I guess I feel like emoticons are more simple and have a certain charm emojis don't
The science behind loosing your appetite
Are emojis the same as hieroglyphics lmao like they are lil pictures that mean a lot
triigga s Das Deep Bro
Give triigga a cricket for making the cognitive connection that both are pictograms.
ah yes {dog head man} {bird} {snake} {wavy lines}
actually no,hieroglyphics mostly represented sounds...sorry.
there are a few exceptions,if you had (symbols for child) then (male figure) it's a boy but otherwise they were just like (wavy line) = *ch* sound.
the most interesting this is that there were no vowels in ancient languages,people at the time just knew how to pronounce it.
it's smthng lk ths bt t thm lt clrr.
because of this we don't know how to pronounce ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics,we know a few words because of the Romans who wrote names in their latin alphabet but otherwise,nothing else.
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Hank you're telling me that scientists are recreating the "outlandish, convoluted plot" of the movie "Kingsman" when everyone goes on a killing rampage because their brains were stimulated by the bad guy. This would've been the first step in research and development for such a plot. Just saying.
Yeah Army of psychopaths will eventually rise
I we aren't dead when it arrives
Heidi turner already knew about emoji analysis because she's smart and funny
Emoticons>Emojis
The next step... Killer bunnies... Guys, it's coming! Run!
I remember when tone and emotion in text were communicated via punctuation and context.
immediately when I saw title of video, I realized I don't even use them, does it mean I'm dead inside? ok lets see the video
When he said "and of course... the flag of Belgium." It made me laugh because It's the only one of those four I have actually used. XD
A wild emoticon appears!
Came for emojis, stayed for killer mice.
A picture speaks a thousand words im studying my emoji degree lol.👨🎓😂
I thought the technical term was emoticon and emoji was just a similar word apple uses. Either way social media has made them very cancerous
In the Name of Science, I once texted my fiance for 3 Days without emojis... He couldn't deal with the lack of emotions that he was experiencing and actually got a near panic attack! Alot of insecurities and negative thinking...
Psychologists are studying Emojis, and I just found out that Hank Green uses them. Life is over.
Wait, how are they using lasers (i.e. light) to trigger stuff in mice brains?
that last part about the mice... did Kingsman get a little closer?
I wasnt paying attention to the video playing until I heard the word "hooking up"
Sooo what you're saying is that the villain in Zootopia could've gone even further?! Even the mice could have gone savage?!
Regarding the emojis, I suspect that they'll hit on some similar pathways as language since many linguists see them as accutrements to language. I can't remember what the term is but they aren't really their own language but assist with comprehending it. Look up Gretchen McCullough for more info if you're interested.
Am I the only one worried about the implications of that mouse study on a possible zombie apocalypse ?
Now to make on-demand killer xenomorphs, I think Weyland Yutani would appreciate that
#Alien references
Next Hollywood movie, an experiment on killer rats went wrong...
Emoji's are the punctuation marks of tomorrow.
I thought 😂 was someone being tortured but forced to smile
Am I the only one who gets really pissed off when people constantly spamming emojis in conversations? Like 5 winky faces with an upside down smiling face and heart eyes in one text message? I think it may be just because I imagine them experiencing none of the emotions that the emojis actually cover and just staring blank-faced at their phone spamming irrelevant emojis trying to make it seem like they are reacting more than they really are.
People who use emojis in their comments be like: Ate spaghetti with a white shirt, didn't get sauce on it 😊😀😁😂😂😃😈😇😅😄😄😉😯😐😑😕😴😢😬😠😮😣😤😥😦😟😩😩😧😨😱😲😳😵😶😛😍😒😞😷😜😝😋😗😙😙😌😎😎😎😎😔😏🙅🙍🙎🙆😸😻🙅😪😖🙋😸😾👦👧😽👨👦👵👬👪👩💏👵👵👵👶👳💅💇👃❤💋👄👽👾👾👃❤👅💟👍👎👋👏✊🐦🐺🐸🐄🐥🐥
You know who'd really do well to start studying emojis more? Best buy.
If you've heard their radio commercial for cell phone plans, you realize they're about 30 years to old to begin grasping emojis and their relevance/usage in today's society.
What are fetuses doing in the womb? Sleeping? Hibernating? Are they awake?
3rd upload of Hank in one day. I like it!
Killer mice on demand?
I want some :3
More of a challenge to eat them
the difference between "Are you serious = =?" and "Are you serious XD?"
Emojis have ruined every relationship I've ever had.
Isn't anyone else concerned about the possibility of someone igniting these hunting instincts in humans? I understand the neurons don't increase aggression, but it still seems pretty similar.
Hank just had a baby and he's still here making videos for us.💗
I call it, EMOJI ANALYSIS
let's do this (the killer mice) in humans and televise it as the hunger games
Excessive use of emojis annoy me beyond measure, so I only use a few at a time at the very most.
Well, killer mice throws a wrench in the Zootopia movie science.
Oh great now the age of assassin mice has come