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

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dc.contributor.authorZickfeld, Janis H.
dc.contributor.authorvan de Ven, Niels
dc.contributor.authorPich, Olivia
dc.contributor.authorSchubert, Thomas W.
dc.contributor.authorBerkessel, Jana B.
dc.contributor.authorPizarro, José J.
dc.contributor.authorBhushan, Braj
dc.contributor.authorMateo, Nino Jose
dc.contributor.authorBarbosa, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorSharman, Leah
dc.contributor.authorKököyei, Gyöngyi
dc.contributor.authorSchrover, Elke
dc.contributor.authorKardum, Igor
dc.contributor.authorBenzon Aruta, John Jamir
dc.contributor.authorLazarevic, Ljiljana B.
dc.contributor.authorEscobar, María Josefina
dc.contributor.authorStadel, Marie
dc.contributor.authorArriaga, Patrícia
dc.contributor.authorDodaj, Arta
dc.contributor.authorShankland, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorMajeed, Nadyanna M.
dc.contributor.authorLi, Yansong
dc.contributor.authorLekkou, Eleimonitria
dc.contributor.authorHartanto, Andree
dc.contributor.authorÖzdogru, Asil A.
dc.contributor.authorVaughn, Leigh Ann
dc.contributor.authorEspinoza, Maria del Carmen
dc.contributor.authorCaballero, Amparo
dc.contributor.authorKolen, Anouk
dc.contributor.authorKarsten, Julie
dc.contributor.authorManley, Harry
dc.contributor.authorMaeura, Nao
dc.contributor.authorEskisu, Mustafa
dc.contributor.authorShani, Yaniv
dc.contributor.authorChittham, Phakkanun
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Diogo
dc.contributor.authorBavolar, Jozef
dc.contributor.authorKonova, Irina
dc.contributor.authorSato, Wataru
dc.contributor.authorMorvinski, Coby
dc.contributor.authorCarrera, Pilar
dc.contributor.authorVillar, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorIbanez, Agustin
dc.contributor.authorHareli, Shlomo
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Adolfo M.
dc.contributor.authorKremer, Inbal
dc.contributor.authorGötz, Friedrich M.
dc.contributor.authorSchwerdtfeger, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorEstrada-Mejia, Catalina
dc.contributor.authorNakayama, Masataka
dc.contributor.authorNg, Wee Qin
dc.contributor.authorSesar, Kristina
dc.contributor.authorOrjiakor, Charles T.
dc.contributor.authorDumont, Kitty
dc.contributor.authorAllred, Tara Bulut
dc.contributor.authorGracanin, Asmir
dc.contributor.authorRentfrow, Peter J.
dc.contributor.authorSchönefeld, Victoria
dc.contributor.authorVally, Zahir
dc.contributor.authorBarzykowski, Krystian
dc.contributor.authorPeltola, Henna-Riikka
dc.contributor.authorTcherkassof, Anna
dc.contributor.authorHaque, Shamsul
dc.contributor.authorSmieja, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorSu-May, Terri Tan
dc.contributor.authorIJzerman, Hans
dc.contributor.authorVatakis, Argiro
dc.contributor.authorOng, Chew Wei
dc.contributor.authorChoi, Eunsoo
dc.contributor.authorSchorch, Sebastian L.
dc.contributor.authorPáez, Darío
dc.contributor.authorMalik, Sadia
dc.contributor.authorKacmár, Pavol
dc.contributor.authorBobowik, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorJose, Paul
dc.contributor.authorVuoskoski, Jonna K.
dc.contributor.authorBasabe, Nekane
dc.contributor.authorDogan, Ugur
dc.contributor.authorEbert, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorUchida, Yukiko
dc.contributor.authorZheng, Michelle Xue
dc.contributor.authorMefoh, Philip
dc.contributor.authorSebena, René
dc.contributor.authorStanke, Franziska A.
dc.contributor.authorBallada, Christine Joy
dc.contributor.authorBlaut, Agata
dc.contributor.authorWu, Yang
dc.contributor.authorDaniels, Judith K.
dc.contributor.authorKocsel, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorDemirag Burak, Elif Gizem
dc.contributor.authorBalt, Nina F.
dc.contributor.authorVanman, Eric
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Suzanne L.K.
dc.contributor.authorVerschuere, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorSikka, Pilleriin
dc.contributor.authorBoudesseul, Jordane
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Diogo
dc.contributor.authorNussinson, Ravit
dc.contributor.authorIto, Kenichi
dc.contributor.authorMentser, Sari
dc.contributor.authorÇolak, Tugba Seda
dc.contributor.authorMartinez-Zelaya, Gonzalo
dc.contributor.authorVingerhoets, Ad
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-12T17:47:50Z
dc.date.available2022-10-12T17:47:50Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-13
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 digitallyadded 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.es_ES
dc.identifier.issn0022-1031
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12536/1837
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.sourceJournal of Experimental Social Psychologyes_ES
dc.subjectEmotional cryinges_ES
dc.subjectEmotional tearses_ES
dc.subjectAttachmentes_ES
dc.subjectCross-culturales_ES
dc.subjectSocial supportes_ES
dc.titleTears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countrieses_ES
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes_ES
uvm.carreraPsicologíaes_ES
uvm.escuelaEscuela de Ciencias Jurídicas y Socialeses_ES
uvm.indexWoSes_ES
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