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Gonzalo Martínez-zelaya

0000-0002-9848-3666

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Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries

2021

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project examined the tears-social support intentions effect and possible mediating and moderating variables in a fully pre-registered study across 7007 participants (24,886 ratings) and 41 countries spanning all populated continents. Participants were prese…

Sociology and Political ScienceEmotionsPersonal distressAttachment050109 social psychology:Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica]Relaciones interpersonalesEmotional tearsSocial support0302 clinical medicineEmotional crying ; Emotional tears ; Attachment ; Cross-cultural ; Social supportPsychologyFaces10. No inequalitymedia_commonInclusionEmociones y sentimientosCrying05 social sciencesImpactFeelingmedicine.symptomPsychologySocial psychologySocial Psychologymedia_common.quotation_subjectEmpathyCryingInterpersonal relationsEquivalence050105 experimental psychologyExposureSocial supportInterpersonal relationship03 medical and health sciencesmedicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesValence (psychology)Empathic concernDistressIndividualsAttachment; Cross-cultural; Emotional crying; Emotional tears; Social supportCross-culturalPsicologíaEmotional cryingPsychologieLlantoEmpathyEmpatía030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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