Chapter 7 distills from the empirical studies their implications for emoji theories overall and for their applicability to the educational and healthcare realms. The studies have borne a number of concrete implications for emoji theory in general, including how they fit in with communication theories, including nonverbal aspects. Several theoretical notions are developed as well, generalizing them from previous chapters, including the apparent function of emoji as “annotators” of meaning, not just conveyors of prosodic or gestural features in writing. Another notion is that of episodic meaning, whereby the placement of an emoji in the episodes that constitute a message adds to it semiotically. Emoji grammar is thus more appropriately characterized as an episodic grammar.

Chapter 2 discusses formation of beliefs and types of beliefs, including expectations, beliefs in antecedents and outcomes, beliefs about action and inaction, and the biases introduced by beliefs. The chapter also detaileds the effects of beliefs about objects and experiences, and later the effects of beliefs about the antecedents and consequences of behavior.