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- The research project involved 24 semi-structured interviews and used MAXQDA software for data analysis to explore the phenomenon of tears of joy (TOJ).
- The hypothesis suggests that TOJ is a distinct emotional experience with an adaptive function, rather than just a response to extreme joy or a means of regulating emotions.
- The cross-cultural investigation, mainly in India and Japan, indicated that crying for joy may help individuals signal the meaning and direction of their lives, providing supportive evidence for this interpretation.
Article Abstract
This article describes a research project in which a qualitative research was carried out consisting of 24 semi-structured interviews and a subsequent data analysis using the MAXQDA software in order to investigate a particular dimorphic emotional expression: tears of joy (TOJ). The working hypothesis is that TOJ are not only an atypical expression due to a "super joy," or that they are only an attempt by the organism to self-regulate the excess of joyful emotion through the expression of the opposite emotion (sadness), but that it is an emotional experience in its own right-not entirely overlapping with joy-with a specific adaptive function. Through the interviews, conducted in a cross-cultural context (mainly in India and Japan), we explored the following possibility: what if the adaptive function of crying for joy were to signal, to those experiencing it, the meaning of their life; the most important direction given to their existence? The material collected provided positive support for this interpretation.
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