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Got your own techniques for crying on the spot? Share with us by commenting below. Click on image below to enlarge. Subscribe Now. No account yet? Create an account. Edit this Article. We use cookies to make wikiHow great. By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Tips and Warnings. Things You'll Need. Related Articles. Method 1. Think of a real or imagined sad situation. Think of a time when you were feeling sad and remember the emotions you felt at the time.
Focus on the emotions you want to feel rather than trying to cry. Focus on your body, breathing, and expressions instead. Keep your eyes wide open. Keeping your eyes open will dry them out, causing your body to produce tears. Sometimes if you keep them half-closed, tears will start to form in the corners of your eyes.
Practice doing this indoors where there is less likely of a chance for something to blow into them. Take shallow breaths. To simulate crying, recreate the effect of hyperventilation by taking rapid, shallow breaths. Not only will add to your believability, but it will help your body make tears. Hyperventilating too much will prevent healthy amounts of oxygen from getting into your blood.
Only do this in short bursts to start your tears. Make a sad facial expression. Think about what your face does when you cry. Replicate the emotion by trembling your lip while frowning and scrunching your eyebrows.
Try copying their facial expression. Combine the techniques and let your tears flow. Practice everything in front of the mirror all together to see if you can force out a few tears.
Method 2. Drip eye drops in the corners of your eye for the easiest crying effect. Purchase any lubricant eye drops or artificial tears from your local pharmacy. Also in the courtroom, tears of defendants are frequently regarded as crocodile tears Lefrevre, ; Glaberson, In these settings, what people consider as fake tears generally seems not to be appreciated, and a convict who is suspected of crying crocodile tears may be met with much disapproval and adverse reactions.
Even defense attorneys have occasionally been accused of swaying juries with the power of tears to spare their client, appealing to the emotions of the jury instead of their reason Lefrevre, The general implicit assumption thus seems to be that manipulating juries in the courtroom with crocodile tears may be beneficial for the defendant Glaberson, The detection of the truthfulness of others is an essential skill in everyday social interactions and legal settings.
This raises the question of whether people can reliably distinguish between fake and real emotions, and, more specifically, between genuine and crocodile tears. The results of a few studies on deception do suggest that crocodile tears may be recognized and show that verbal and body language cues can reveal falsified sadness expressions, also in the case of false remorse Porter and Yuille, ; Porter and Ten Brinke, ; Ten Brinke et al.
More precisely, Ten Brinke et al. This emotional turbulence may be reflected in the leakage of genuine, positive emotions during expressions of falsified sadness. Indeed, there is suggestive evidence that individuals show inconsistent emotional expressions during deception, possibly indicating that subtle emotional leakages in the face reveal an involuntary aspect of human behavior Porter and Ten Brinke, ; Ten Brinke and Porter, Do individuals or groups differ in the capacity to recognize fake expressions?
Vrij and Mann examined the detection of real-life videotaped deception of relatives appealing for help concerning a missing family member whom they had murdered. Moreover, it has been shown that lie ability and lie production are positively related, indicating that, in particular, those who easily lie, are better at detecting deceitful others Wright et al. Dark triad personality traits narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism have also been shown to predict the ability to detect deceitfulness, although associations may be sex-specific.
Lyons et al. Concerning sex differences, Vrij and Mann reported higher accuracies in men than in women. However, a meta-analysis examining individual differences in the ability to detect deception based on studies did not reveal substantial sex differences Aamodt and Custer, There was also no evidence of associations with age or education. One may, however, wonder if the ability to distinguish real and fake tears also depends on whether the crier employs surface acting or deep acting Mesmer-Magnus et al.
In the case of surface acting, it might be easier to recognize that the tears are not genuine than in the case of deep acting. In the latter case, actors memorize intense emotional episodes and re-experience the associated emotions.
That implies that the produced tears are always real, although the associated emotion s that triggered the tears have no connection with the direct situation. To that end, we exposed the participants to eight brief video-fragments of crying individuals. Four of them were real crying episodes, and the remaining four included acted crying episodes. We asked the participants for each video fragment to indicate whether it was genuine or acted crying.
Based on the literature showing emotional leakage during deception, one could expect that participants would be able to reliably recognize crocodile tears, although in the case of the use of very brief footages, without sound and possible deep acting, it might be unlikely that observers can make this distinction.
We further asked the participants to rate the perceived reliability, warmth, tendency to manipulate, weakness, sincerity, and competence of the crying models and to indicate to what extent they felt connected with him or her. We additionally requested the participants to report how suitable the crying model was for a set of professions that are regarded as reliable physician, judge, teacher, police officer, and scientist and a set of professions deemed unreliable journalist, banker, real estate agent, politician, and CEO according to the Ipsos Mori Veracity Index, a survey that lists the most and least trusted professions Ipsos MORI, Participants were also requested to evaluate the suitability of the crying person for different personal relationship roles colleague, neighbor, friend, and baby sitter , in order to obtain an impression of the effects of this factor for everyday social life.
We also explored gender differences in the capacity to recognize crocodile tears, but, given the mixed findings in previous studies Aamodt and Custer, , we were not certain what we might expect. The study was announced via social media.
There were no exclusion criteria. Permission for this study was obtained from the local ethics committee, and all participants gave informed consent. The participants were asked to complete an online survey during which they were exposed to eight brief video clips without sound, duration between 2 and 7 s , depicting a real or fake crying individual.
Video clips of fake criers originated from YouTube movies with actors two men, two women , whereas video clips of real crying originated from YouTube movies showing genuinely crying individuals two men, two women. The video clips were selected from a larger set of 66 videos from YouTube.
The selection of the eight clips was based on the technical quality of the video, front view of the faces of the crying individuals, the clear display of rolling tears on the cheeks, and full visibility of the faces, necks, and shoulders. The participants were not informed that tears of four of the criers were fake, and of four others were real. All participants viewed all eight video clips. After each video fragment, a set of questions was answered, addressing the perceived genuineness of the tears and the evaluation of the depicted crier.
In addition, they were requested to evaluate the reliability, warmth, tendency to manipulate, weakness, sincerity, and competence of the crying model. With the Inclusion of Others in Self scale Aron et al. Finally, as a more indirect measure of perceived reliability and social attractiveness, and to obtain some clue to what extent the different ratings would translate to daily life, the participants indicated their enthusiasm to have the depicted individual in certain social roles in their private life i.
More precisely, participants were asked to rate the perceived fitness of the depicted person for being a police officer, teacher, scientist, judge, and physician, professions that have previously been characterized as reliable according to the veracity index, and banker, real estate salesperson, CEO, politician, journalist, which are professions characterized as unreliable Ipsos MORI, All ratings were conducted on VAS scales ranging from 1 to To evaluate whether the participants were able to distinguish between real and fake tears and to examine possible gender differences in the ability to detect crocodile tears, Chi-square tests were performed.
To address the primary objective i. All data analyses were carried out within the R statistical environment R Core Team, The perceived role fitness PRF for the three different domains private settings, reliable and unreliable jobs were all measured with multiple items.
In order to evaluate the appropriateness of computing a single indicator for the specified domains, a principal component factor analysis was conducted for each domain separately. Table 1. Principal components eigenvalues, reliabilities estimates, and mean inter-item correlation of perceived role fitness domains. At the same time, we controlled for participants and video-clips as random effects in a series of hierarchical linear models. First, a null model model 0 was estimated to assess the amount of between-person and between-clips judgment variance.
The null model was used both to estimate the amount of variance that can be accounted for by individual differences participants and by manipulation video clips and also to serve as a null model to compare more complex models with. The addition of fixed parameters was evaluated in a stepwise fashion using the likelihood ratio test. Main effects of all variables were entered in model 1. Model 2 additionally included two-way interaction terms, while model 3 also included three-way interaction terms.
As a significance indicator of every single parameter, bootstrap confidence intervals were computed samples. The diagonal elements in the total sample part of Table 2 are higher than the off-diagonal ones.
Table 2. Number of occurrences for every combination of actual and perceived tears for the total sample and for the male and female subsample separately. Table 3 presents the descriptives of the evaluations of the genuine and fake criers. The null-model model 0 fitted the data poorly Table 4. The ICC was 0. The addition of fixed main effects increased the model fit significantly, as did the inclusion of both two-way and three-way interactions Table 4.
Table 3. Descriptives mean and SD of certainty, competence, reliability, warmth, weakness, connectedness, sincerity, manipulation, role fitness, reliable job, and unreliable job for genuine and acted tears left and perceived genuine and perceived fake tears right. The addition of three-way interaction terms had a modest in terms of effect size estimates but significant effect.
Table 5. The perceived tears two-way interaction parameters show that the judgments of positive personality aspects warmth, reliability, sincerity, competence, perceived role fitness in private settings, and reliable jobs are higher in the perceived genuine condition than in the perceived false condition. The same is true, but in the opposite direction, for the perceived manipulative tendencies and weakness, while there are no differences for PRF for unreliable jobs.
The actual tears two-way interactions appeared to have a more subtle effect. Fewer parameters are statistically significant. More precisely, only perceived weakness was evaluated as higher in the case of not correctly identified actual tears with manipulative tendencies and sincerity having a marginally significant difference.
The three-way interaction shows a small effect. The model estimates are not significantly different or are slightly smaller than zero, meaning that the combination of genuine actual tears perceived as genuine does not significantly increase or change the estimates.
The same effect cannot be attributed to the actual tears in the presented clips. The sole perception of the tears as genuine evoked a more positive judgment of the depicted crying model in terms of higher perceived warmth, reliability, sincerity, competence, PRF in private settings and reliable jobs, and perceived connectedness and lower perceived manipulative tendency.
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