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He told The Post that he met Kogan in his Harvard office to discuss potentially collaborating on a project looking at how people's use of emoticons in social media correlated with their mood. (washingtonpost.com)
The researchers used emoticons with smiling or frowning faces at each end of a continuum to get people to identify whether the music made them feel good or bad. (sciencedaily.com)
He told The Post that he met Kogan in his Harvard office to discuss potentially collaborating on a project looking at how people's use of emoticons in social media correlated with their mood. (washingtonpost.com)