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Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation o...
Zickfeld, J. H.; Van de Ven; N.; Pich, O.; Schubert, T. W.; Berkessel, J. B.; Pizarro, J.; Bhushan, B.; Mateo, N. J.; Barbosa, S.; Sharman, L.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 lim...
Revisiting the difference between instrumental and terminal values to predict (...
Oceja, L.; Stocks, E.; Heerdink, M.; Villar, S.; Salgado, S.; Carrera, P.; Arribas, M.; Bargsted, M.; Beramendi, M.; Caballero, A.; Espinosa, A.Past research suggests that the connection between values and people's behaviour may not be as straightforward and robust as has been claimed. We propose that a more holistic and discriminative view that acknowledges the influence of a specific combination of values on specific kinds of behaviour is needed. In the current project, we test two hypotheses regarding the transcendental-change profile (TCP). First, ...
Kama muta: conceptualizing and measuring the experience of being moved across 1...
Zickfeld, J. H.; Schubert, T. W.; Seibt, C.; Blomster, J.; Arriaga, P.; Basabe, N.; Blaut, A.; Caballero, A.; Carrera, P.; Dalgar, I.; Ding, Y.English-speakers sometimes say that they feel moved to tears, emotionally touched, stirred, or that something warmed their heart; other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. We propose and measure the concept of kama muta to understand experiences often given these and other labels. Do the same experiences evoke the same kama muta emotion across nations and languages? W...