Cyberpsychology seeks to understand the intersection between humans and technology. At its heart, its mission is to explore the digitally-connected human experience, in relation to how digital technology relates to our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. I've worked in the area of cyberpsychology since I started my PhD on the topic of the psychology of videogames back in 2007. It's been wonderful to see how this field has developed and to see how its recognition has broadened

Although emoji interpretation has been widely studied, there is less that has provided a systematic investigation of how interpretation may be influenced by native language of the receiver. If emoji have key psycholinguistic functions (which we are pretty sure they do), it makes sense that their interpretation will be bound by linguistic and cultural influences. Led by dissertation student Aleks Bogdeva, we replicated the work of Scheffler and Nenchev (2024) but specifically

Team Emoji has been gracing a number of conferences recently. At the start of July, we were at the British Psychological Society's Cyberpsychology Section conference on the beautiful grounds of York St John University. Team Emoji (from left to right): Lee Hurley, Rebecca Fuller, Sneha Thomas and Linda Kaye In attendance at the conference was Team Emoji PI, Professor Linda Kaye, as well as Lee Hurley and Edge Hill University interns, Sneha Thomas and Rebecca Fuller. We were es