The Meaning of Emoji to Describe Food Experiences in Pre-Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Ongoing research has shown that emoji can be used by children to discriminate food products, but it is unclear if they express emotions and how they are linked to emotional words. Little is known about how children interpret emoji in terms of their emotional meaning in the context of food. This study aimed at investigating the emotional meaning of emoji used to describe food experiences in 9-13-year-old pre-adolescents and to measure related age and gender differences. The meaning of 46 emoji used to describe food experience was explored by: mapping emoji according to similarities and differences in their emotional meaning using the projective mapping technique, and linking emoji with emotion words using a check-all-that-apply (CATA) format. The two tasks gave consistent results and showed

SUBMITTER: Sick J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7555141 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature