How Culture Shapes Our Relationship With Tears Cultural attitudes toward crying vary widely across the world. Some cultures embrace public expressions of grief, viewing shared tears as essential to ...

If you find yourself crying when someone else starts crying, you may have a few distinct personality traits that suggest ...

What fills more of your time, crying or exercising? Consider this: Cosmopolitan conducted a poll in 2010 and found that 33 ...

Crying is a natural response to a wide variety of emotions, ranging from extreme sadness to extreme happiness. Since the ancient era, crying has been regarded as a natural phenomenon that helps ...

Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / AJR_photo. That box of tissues isn’t just for mopping up your emotions—those tears you’ve been holding back at work, in traffic, or during that commercial with the ...

"[Because] you're never too old to learn something new," one social-media user said. "That’s so sweet!" another added.

Potential causes of crying for no apparent reason include pregnancy, burnout, anxiety, and grief. Depending on the underlying cause, a person may experience other symptoms alongside sudden crying.

In 2013, researchers led by Paul Rozin, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, published a paper on “hedonic reversal,” a form of “benign masochism” in which people take pleasure ...