WHAT MAKES PEOPLE CRY?
A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF SITUATIONS THAT EVOKE EMOTIONAL TEARS
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE CRY?
A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF SITUATIONS THAT EVOKE EMOTIONAL TEARS
Author(s): Julia Wągrowska, Monika WróbelSubject(s): Cognitive Psychology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: emotions; emotional tears; stimulus material; situational vignettes;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of two preliminary studies reported in the article was to identify the main reasons for crying and to create a set of situational vignettes that would refer to specific situations or events that poten- tially can make people cry. In Study 1 (n = 61), we asked participants to list six general reasons behind crying. In Study 2 (n = 70), participants were asked to identify specific situations in which people shed emotion-related tears. As a result, we selected a set of 34 situational vignettes. Each of them is a short and gender-neutral description of a specific emotional reason that can make people cry and is related to one of the following basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, or fear. The vignettes can be used to manipulate the emotional basis of tears in experimental research.
Journal: Roczniki Psychologiczne
- Issue Year: 25/2022
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 277-307
- Page Count: 31
- Language: English