Can't fight seeing sadness in tears : measuring the implicit association between tears and sadness

• Main Authors: Ong, Chew Wei, Ito, Kenichi
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Implicit Association; Emotion; Facial Expressions; Tears; Sadness; Nonverbal Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155464
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Visible tears have been shown to enhance the perception of sadness. Whether the sadness perception from visible tears can occur automatically, which is essential for the rapid identification of emotional cues in real-life social interactions, is still unclear. We employed the reaction-time-based Imp...