Some authors have compared emoticons to non-verbal expressive gestures,suggesting that they replace them on text-based communication giving dynamicity to the conversations,and facilitating emotional emphasis(Feldman etal.,2017a,b).The function of emoticons in this dimensionhas yielded an incipient research to study their role in emotional comprehension during virtual communication (for a review see Aldunateand González-Ibáñez,2017).