Dating site Match.com has found in a new survey that people using more emojis in their text messages are more likely having more sex.
This discovery was made in Match's fifth-annual Singles in America Survey, which included 5,675 single people who were at least 18 years old and found that people in their 20s, 30s and 40s who used more emojis had more sex, according to TIME.
Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University who helped lead the study, said 51 percent of emoji users had sex in 2014, while 31 percent of single people did not.
Additional findings included 31 percent of singles meeting their last first date online and over 70 percent of online daters wanting potential mates to have their phones on them during a date, USA Today reported.
While most participants said it's easier for them to date online, there were some serious turnoffs found in using technology to date, such as men not wanting to receive texts at work, as well as both sexes not liking misspellings and grammatical mistakes or receiving a second text before they respond to the first. The results also showed that singles aren't fans of potential mates posting a large amount of selfies or bringing emotional drama to the online world.
Fisher said people use emojis as a way to give their texts more personality, thus making their messages feel more emotional, TIME reported.
"Here we have a new technology that absolutely jeopardizes your ability to express your emotion ... there is no more subtle inflection of the voice ... and so we have created another way to express emotions and that is the emoji."
Emoji users were also found to have a greater interest in marriage, with 89 percent believing they can stay married to the same person forever and 54 percent of singles believing in love at first sight, USA Today reported.
"We are in a fascinating stage of redefining courtship, because we are so rapidly changing what courtship means- When do we marry? When do we stay married? How do we find love?" Fisher said.
She added that singles aren't as concerned about staying married if they can make a better one, with 34 percent of single men and 32 percent of single women saying you should be able to end a satisfactory marriage "if you are no longer passionately in love." Singles (65 percent men, 77 percent women) also said being married more than once doesn't mean you failed at marriage.
