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They contain significantly greater quantities of the hormones prolactin , adrenocorticotropic hormone , and Leu-enkephalin , [5] and the elements potassium and manganese. The question of the function or origin of emotional tears remains open. Theories range from the simple, such as response to inflicted pain, to the more complex, including nonverbal communication in order to elicit altruistic behavior from others.
This theory could explain why people cry during cheerful events, as well as very painful events.
Individuals tend to remember the positive aspects of crying, and may create a link between other simultaneous positive events, such as resolving feelings of grief. Together, these features of memory reinforce the idea that crying helped the individual. In Hippocratic and medieval medicine, tears were associated with the bodily humors , and crying was seen as purgation of excess humors from the brain.
Frey II, a biochemist at the University of Minnesota , proposed that people feel "better" after crying due to the elimination of hormones associated with stress , specifically adrenocorticotropic hormone. This, paired with increased mucosal secretion during crying, could lead to a theory that crying is a mechanism developed in humans to dispose of this stress hormone when levels grow too high.
Recent psychological theories of crying emphasize the relationship of crying to the experience of perceived helplessness. For example, a person may cry after receiving surprisingly happy news, ostensibly because the person feels powerless or unable to influence what is happening. Emotional tears have also been put into an evolutionary context. One study proposes that crying, by blurring vision, can handicap aggressive or defensive actions, and may function as a reliable signal of appeasement, need, or attachment. Another theory that follows evolutionary psychology is given by Paul D.
MacLean, who suggests that the vocal part of crying was used first as a "separation cry" to help reunite parents and offspring. The tears, he speculates, are a result of a link between the development of the cerebrum and the discovery of fire. MacLean figures that since early humans must have relied heavily on fire, their eyes were frequently producing reflexive tears in response to the smoke. As humans evolved the smoke possibly gained a strong association with the loss of life and, therefore, sorrow.
Weeping is a behavior that induces empathy perhaps with the mediation of the mirror neurons network , and influences the mood through the release of hormones elicited by the massage effect made by the tears on the cheeks, or through the relief of the sobbing rhythm. It can be very difficult to observe biological effects of crying, especially considering many psychologists believe the environment in which a person cries can alter the experience of the crier.
However, crying studies in laboratories have shown several physical effects of crying, such as increased heart rate, sweating, and slowed breathing.
Crying is the shedding of tears in response to an emotional state, pain or a physical irritation of the eye. Emotions that can lead to crying include anger. Definition of cry - shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow, shout or scream, typically to express fear, pain, or grief, .
Although it appears that the type of effects an individual experiences depends largely on the individual, for many it seems that the calming effects of crying, such as slowed breathing, outlast the negative effects, which could explain why people remember crying as being helpful and beneficial. The most common side effect of crying is feeling a lump in the throat of the crier, otherwise known as a globus sensation.
When an animal is threatened by some form of danger, the sympathetic nervous system triggers several processes to allow the animal to fight or flee. This includes shutting down unnecessary body functions, such as digestion, and increasing blood flow and oxygen to necessary muscles. When an individual experiences emotions such as sorrow, the sympathetic nervous system still responds in this way. This is done by expanding the glottis , which allows more air to pass through. As an individual is undergoing this sympathetic response, eventually the parasympathetic nervous system attempts to undo the response by decreasing high stress activities and increasing recuperative processes, which includes running digestion.
This involves swallowing, a process which requires closing the fully expanded glottis to prevent food from entering the larynx.
The glottis, however, attempts to remain open as an individual cries. This fight to close the glottis creates a sensation that feels like a lump in the individual's throat. Other common side effects of crying are quivering lips, a runny nose , and an unsteady, cracking voice.
According to the German Society of Ophthalmology, which has collated different scientific studies on crying, the average woman cries between 30 and 64 times a year, and the average man cries between 6 and 17 times a year.
Men tend to cry for between two and four minutes, and women cry for about six minutes. Until adolescence, however, no difference between the sexes was found. Although crying is an infant's mode of communication, it is not limited to a monotonous sound. There are three different types of cries apparent in infants. The first of these three is a basic cry , which is a systematic cry with a pattern of crying and silence.
CRY parents recognised with Points of Light award How we chose 'justice'. The Truth About Tearing Up". They would then be asked: Would you like to view this in our Asia edition? Would you like to view this in our UK edition? For example, a person may cry after receiving surprisingly happy news, ostensibly because the person feels powerless or unable to influence what is happening.
The basic cry starts with a cry coupled with a briefer silence, which is followed by a short high-pitched inspiratory whistle. Then, there is a brief silence followed by another cry.
Hunger is a main stimulant of the basic cry. An anger cry is much like the basic cry; however, in this cry, more excess air is forced through the vocal cords, making it a louder, more abrupt cry. This type of cry is characterized by the same temporal sequence as the basic pattern but distinguished by differences in the length of the various phase components. The third cry is the pain cry , which, unlike the other two, has no preliminary moaning.
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Build a city of skyscrapers—one synonym at a time. Synonyms for cry Synonyms: Verb bawl , blub [ chiefly British ] , blubber , sob , weep Synonyms: Noun holler , hoot , howl , shout , whoop , yell , yowl Visit the Thesaurus for More. Examples of cry in a Sentence Verb The baby is crying. Some people cry more easily than others.
He cried silently while the song played.
She cried all the way home from school that day. She couldn't imagine why anyone would cry over a stupid movie. She was crying with relief. They cried tears of joy. She'd never heard the sound of sea gulls crying by the shore. Noun The baby's cry woke me out of a deep sleep. The children were playing a game and their happy cries echoed through the house. Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Instead, the sick lie on the ground outside, writhing and crying in pain. Jacque LaCroix, a priest in France is seen on a now-viral video slapping a crying baby during a baptism.
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