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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...
Tears of joy, aesthetic chills and heartwarming feelings: physiological correla...
Zickfeld, J. H.; Arriaga, P.; Santos, S. V.; Schubert, T. W.; Seibt, B.Situations involving increased closeness or exceptional kindness are often labeled as moving or touching and individuals often report bodily symptoms, including tears, goosebumps and warmth in the body. Recently, the kama muta framework has been proposed as a cross-cultural conceptualization of these experiences. Prior research on kama muta has mostly relied on subjective reports. Thus, our main goal of the pre...
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...
Too cute for words: cuteness evokes the heartwarming emotion of kama muta
Steinnes, K. K.; Blomster, J. K.; Seibt, B.; Zickfeld, J. H.; Fiske, A. P.A configuration of infantile attributes including a large head, large eyes, with a small nose and mouth low on the head comprise the visual baby schema or Kindchenschema that English speakers call “cute.” In contrast to the stimulus gestalt that evokes it, the evoked emotional response to cuteness has been little studied, perhaps because the emotion has no specific name in English, Norwegian, or German. We hypo...
Are tearful individuals perceived as less competent? Probably not
Zickfeld, J. H.; van de Ven, N.; Schubert, T. W.; Vingerhoets, A.What are the social signals of emotional tears? This question has fascinated scholars ever since Darwin. Studies have suggested several interpersonal effects of emotional tears. A recent study by Van de Ven, Meijs, and Vingerhoets (2017) presented evidence in three studies that tearful individuals are perceived as warmer, but also less competent than their non-tearful counterparts. However, the competence effec...
Touching the base: heart-warming ads from the 2016 U.S. election moved viewers ...
Seibt, B.; Schubert, T. W.; Zickfeld, J. H.; Fiske, A. P.Some political ads used in the 2016 U.S. election evoked feelings colloquially known as being moved to tears. We conceptualise this phenomenon as a positive social emotion that appraises and motivates communal relations, is accompanied by physical sensations (including lachrymation, piloerection, chest warmth), and often labelled metaphorically. We surveyed U.S. voters in the fortnight before the 2016 U.S. elec...
Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social th...
Hu, C. P.; Yin, J. X.; Lindenberg, S.; Dalğar, I.; Weissgerber, S. C.; Vergara, R. C.; Cairo, A. H.; Čolić, M. V.; Dursun, P.; Frankowska, N.; Hadi, R.In the Human Penguin Project (N = 1755), 15 research groups from 12 countries collected body temperature, demographic variables, social network indices, seven widely-used psychological scales and two newly developed questionnaires (the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1) and the Kama Muta Frequency Scale (KAMF)). They were collected to investigate the relationship between environm...
Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, go...
Schubert, T. W.; Zickfeld, J. H.; Seibt, C.; Fiske, A. P.Feeling moved or touched can be accompanied by tears, goosebumps, and sensations of warmth in the centre of the chest. The experience has been described frequently, but psychological science knows little about it. We propose that labelling one’s feeling as being moved or touched is a component of a social-relational emotion that we term kama muta (its Sanskrit label). We hypothesise that it is caused by apprais...
Warm and touching tears: tearful individuals are perceived as warmer because we...
Zickfeld, J. H.; Schubert, T. W.Recent work investigated the inter-individual functions of emotional tears in depth. In one study (Van de Ven, N., Meijs, M. H. J., & Vingerhoets, A. (2017). What emotional tears convey: Tearful individuals are seen as warmer, but also as less competent. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(1), 146–160. Https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12162) tearful individuals were rated as warmer, and participants expressed ...
Interpersonal closeness and morality predict feelings of being moved
Seibt, C.; Schubert, T. W.; Zickfeld, J. H.; Fiske, A. P.The emotion commonly labeled in English as being moved or touched is widely experienced but only tacitly defined, and has received little systematic attention. Based on a review of conceptualizations from various disciplines, we hypothesize that events appraised as an increase in interpersonal closeness, or as moral acts, when sufficiently intense, elicit a positive emotion typically labeled "being moved," and ...