This worksheet is designed to help you understand what triggers uncontrollable crying and develop strategies to manage these emotional responses. By identifying situations, thoughts, …

In this article, we present a framework for explaining variations in the psychological effects of crying as a function of (a) how the effects of crying are measured, traits of the crier, and (d) the …

Evidence is mixed about the benefits of crying. Some evidence says crying doesn’t do anything beneficial and people don’t feel good after crying and other evidence recognizes crying as a …

theory-driven taxonomy. In what follows, we first define emotional crying, then outline our theory-driven approach to categorize crying, and finally present empirical evidence for our assumptions.

Despite an accumulating understanding of the neurobiology of human emotional crying, the primary sources of information are currently from animal studies and observations in …

In the following, we introduce the concept of emotional crying. We then review theoretical considerations on the social signal func-tion of crying and elaborate on the research designs …

Physiological reasoning for crying is supported in this essay using information published by Tom Lutz’s Crying. His text explores the physiological assumptions about human crying using the …