Niels van de Ven - What Emotional Tears Convey: Tearful Individuals

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Niels van de Ven, Maartje Meijs, Ad Vingerhoets
British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 56, 2017, pp. 146-160

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van de Ven, N., Meijs, M., & Vingerhoets, A. (2017). What Emotional Tears Convey: Tearful Individuals Are Seen as Warmer, But Also as Less Competent. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56, 146–160. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12162

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Ven, Niels van de, Maartje Meijs, and Ad Vingerhoets. “What Emotional Tears Convey: Tearful Individuals Are Seen as Warmer, But Also as Less Competent.” British Journal of Social Psychology 56 (2017): 146–160.

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van de Ven, Niels, et al. “What Emotional Tears Convey: Tearful Individuals Are Seen as Warmer, But Also as Less Competent.” British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 56, 2017, pp. 146–60, doi:10.1111/bjso.12162.

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@article{niels2017a,
  title = {What Emotional Tears Convey: Tearful Individuals Are  Seen as Warmer, But Also as Less Competent},
  year = {2017},
  journal = {British Journal of Social Psychology},
  pages = {146-160},
  volume = {56},
  doi = {10.1111/bjso.12162},
  author = {van de Ven, Niels and Meijs, Maartje and Vingerhoets, Ad}
}

[following up on the work below in 2016, we found that people not only see those with tears as being more warm, but also as less competent, the key dimensions of the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske et al., 2002). this also affected subsequent behavioral intentions towards those who cry.

Important note! Zickfeld & Schubert (2018, link) tried to replicate these findings, and only replicated the warmth findings. They did not find effects of a tear on perceived competence. We then jointly ran studies for this paper and indeed finds that the warmth effect is robust, but the competence effect might not be. But see also again this paper for more on this.