Emotional Tears: An Honest Signal of Trustworthiness Increasing Prosocial Behavior?
How do our emotional tears affect the way we are treated? We tested whether tears, paired with either a neutral or a sad facial expression, elicited prosocial behavior among perceivers. Participants viewed a video clip depicting a confederate partner with or without tears displaying either a neutral...
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
SAGE Publishing
2019-08-01
|
Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704919872421 |