What Makes People Cry? A Preliminary Analysis of Situations that Evoke Emotional Tears

• Authors: Julia Wągrowska , Monika Wróbel

Abstracts

EN

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 potentially can make people cry. In Study 1 (n = 61), we asked the participants to list six general reasons behind crying. In Study 2 (n = 70), the 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.

Keywords

EN

emotions; emotional tears; stimulus material; situational vignettes

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Psychologiczne
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 277-307

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Julia Wągrowska

• Institute of Psychology, University of Lodz

• https://orcid.org/0000000164486095

author

Monika Wróbel

• Institute of Psychology, University of Lodz

• https://orcid.org/0000000243266154

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rpsych2022.12

Biblioteka Nauki

31340938