Is crying a self-soothing behavior?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Gračanin, Asmir ^a   Bylsma, Lauren M ^b   Vingerhoets, Ad J J M ^c  

^a Filozofskog fakulteta u Rijeci   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crying; Emotion regulation; Mood management; Self soothing; Social soothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904504483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00502     Document Type: Article

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