Tears make you look sadder even when you are scowling or smiling : exploring the sadness enhancement effect of emotional tears

• Main Author: Ong, Chew Wei
• Other Authors: Kenichi Ito
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150682
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Emotional tears on crying faces have been reliably shown to enhance the perception of sadness. I aimed to address in this dissertation some of the research gaps regarding the emotion perception of tears, including the effect of tears on the perception of non-sadness emotions, the automaticity and hi...