Effect of gender stereotypes and tears on level of participant personal distress

• Main Author: Ong, Stella Xin Yi
• Other Authors: Kenichi Ito
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74172
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tears shed from one individual can convey sadness, distress and many other emotions to another individual (perceiver). Study 1 in this paper examines if seeing another individual in tears would cause the perceiver themselves to experience feelings of personal distress. In Study 1, participants had t...