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dc.contributor.authorZickfeld, Janis H.
dc.contributor.authorvan de Ven, Niels
dc.contributor.authorDoğan, Uğur
dc.contributor.authorPich, Olivia
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-22T08:31:08Z
dc.date.available2021-04-22T08:31:08Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.identifier.citationZickfeld, J. H., Van De Ven, N., Pich, O., Schubert, T. W., Berkessel, J. B., Pizarro, J. J., … Vingerhoets, A.. (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104137. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137en_US
dc.identifier.issn00221031
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12809/9184
dc.description.abstractTearful 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 presented with four pictures out of 100 possible targets with or without digitally-added tears. We confirmed the main prediction that seeing a tearful individual elicits the intention to support, d = 0.49 [0.43, 0.55]. Our data suggest that this effect could be mediated by perceiving the crying target as warmer and more helpless, feeling more connected, as well as feeling more empathic concern for the crier, but not by an increase in personal distress of the observer. The effect was moderated by the situational valence, identifying the target as part of one's group, and trait empathic concern. A neutral situation, high trait empathic concern, and low identification increased the effect. We observed high heterogeneity across countries that was, via split-half validation, best explained by country-level GDP per capita and subjective well-being with stronger effects for higher-scoring countries. These findings suggest that tears can function as social glue, providing one possible explanation why emotional crying persists into adulthood.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWhile working on the study and/or writing the present paper Krystian Barzykowski was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland ( 2015/19/D/HS6/00641 , 2019/35/B/HS6/00528 ) and by the Bekker programme from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (no.: PPN/BEK/2019/1/00092/DEC/1 ); Patrícia Arriaga and Irina Konova were supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology ( UID/PSI/03125/2020 ). Gyöngyi Kökönyei and Natália Kocsel were supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office ( FK128614 ) and Gyöngyi Kökönyei was supported by the Hungarian Brain Research Programme (Grant No. 2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002 ). Ravit Nussinson and Sari Mentser were supported by an internal fund of the Open University of Israel ( 509993-2018 ).en_US
dc.item-language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Press Inc.en_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137en_US
dc.item-rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectEmotional cryingen_US
dc.subjectEmotional tearsen_US
dc.subjectAttachmenten_US
dc.subjectCross-culturalen_US
dc.subjectSocial supporten_US
dc.titleTears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countriesen_US
dc.item-typearticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMÜ, Eğitim Fakültesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümüen_US
dc.contributor.institutionauthorDoğan, Uğur
dc.identifier.volume95en_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Experimental Social Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US


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