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This chapter discusses the di erent aspects and facets of crying. The need for a multidisciplinary approach is emphasized and a model is introduced that helps to obtain a better understanding of how a crying episode may develop and which factors may come into play. The model -with a cognitive emotion model as the core -makes a distinction between antecedents, appraisal, reactions, intrapersonal e ects and inter-personal e ect. In addition, it illustrates how psychosocial, biological, and situational factors may in uence this process. The model is helpful to design studies and to develop speci c research questions. It further helps to structure the book. It stresses that the main objective is to present the current state-of-knowledge with respect to crying, but that in most chapters attention will be paid to views and theories of the past.... we must look at weeping as an incidental result, as purposeless as the secretion of tears from a blow outside the eye, or as a sneeze from the retina being a ected by a bright light... (Charles Darwin, 1872) The mystery of tears Tears have fascinated mankind for centuries. This is not surprising-tears are conspicuous and their power cannot be d

Author

Ad Vingerhoets

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN