Emotional tears communicate sadness but not excessive emotions without other contextual knowledge

• Main Authors: Ito, Kenichi, Ong, Chew Wei, Kitada, Ryo
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Tear; Face Perception; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105836; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48765; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/SQCDCB
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Contexts of face perception are diverse. They range from the social environment to body postures, from the expresser’s gaze direction to the tone of voice. In extending the research on contexts of face perception, we investigated people’s perception of tears on a face. The act of shedding tears is o...