Why crying does and sometimes does not seem to alleviate mood: a quasi-experimental study.

Motiv Emot · 2015 · PMC4608976 · PMID 26500382

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When the ANOVA was repeated by including the six participants who reported the last crying episode earlier than the last scene in the film, the overall change in mood became marginally significant in the crying group [F(3, 29) = 1.76; p = .093; partial η 2 = .08], but all the hypothesized changes (T1–T2, T2–T4, and T1–T4) remained significant ( p < .001, p < .001, and p = .003, respectively).

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