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...

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Main Authors: Lawrence Ian Reed, Yanal Matari, Molly Wu, Revathi Janaswamy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-08-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704919872421

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