Dr. Ben Rein

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The Liz Moody Podcast · Stanford Neuroscientist: THIS Is The Secret To Living Longer (It's Not Diet Or Exercise) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Here's how I think about digital interaction in general.

I see like a staircase in my mind where at the top, we're in person, we're interacting.

One step down is video.

You can still see them.

You can still hear them.

You're not together though.

Step down, audio, phone call.

Step down, text message.

And as you progress down this staircase, you are gradually taking away social cues.

So even when we go from in-person to video, the reason it doesn't feel the same is because we're losing eye contact.

We're losing body language.

We're losing social touch.

We're losing social smells.

And that texture,

makes it feel different.

What if we could restore some of that texture by adding emojis, by adding facial expressions to our texts?

There's evidence, this is speculative, but there's evidence that when people look at emoji faces, the brain response is very similar to what happens when they look at a real human face making the same expression.

So the idea here is if you send a text message and you're like, that sounds great.

Someone might read it and be like, but does it really sound great?

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