「涙を流して感動した」人に対して形成される印象とは

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This study examined people’s impressions of individuals who are emotionally moved and crying. Participants were required to read behavioral descriptions of a person and indicate their impression rating and intention to approach him. The descriptions outlined the person’s activities on a given day and were largely neutral, but with two patterns of sentence endings. Participants read only one description with either of the two endings. In the given behavioral description, a person had seen a movie about love and was either moved to tears or merely thought that it was a good story. The results revealed that the experimental manipulation and the value orientation of love did not affect impression ratings. However, participants with a higher value orientation had a higher intention to have a close relationship with the person who was moved and cried than those with a lower value orientation. These results suggest that people with similar orientations toward a value tend to want close relationships with those who are moved and cry regarding the same value.