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Asked by louiseenticott to Bridget, Betul, Ceri-Wyn, Laurel, Maria on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: General. This question was also asked by smirky105, lloydcottonblud.
Question: Why do we cry?
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Bridget Waller answered on 18 Jun 2010:
We communicate with vocalisations and facial expressions to show others how we are feeling – very important when we are living in social groups! I try and work out why and how we express different emotions to each other, very interesting stuff!
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Ceri-Wyn Thomas answered on 18 Jun 2010:
There are different types of tears. Sometimes we shed tears in response to getting something in our eyes or when we’re cutting onions. These tears help to clean an lubricate the eyes keeping them healthy and preventing them being scratched or from becming too dry.
Emotional tears actually contain different proteins and hormones in them to non-emotional tears! So perhaps we cry when we’re feeling very strong emotions as a means of lessening the amounts of these more harmful hormones in our bodies. So crying is probably very good for us!
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Betul Arslan answered on 18 Jun 2010:
I know why I do. Because I am freakishly emotional and that’s how I react to everything 🙂 (Once, I cried during a commercial, but hey, it was touchy!!)
Comments
aimeeenglish commented on :
beause we get upset…?
nishamaliknm commented on :
why does we suffer through different types of feelings? scientifically we know that how are body works but at any point it doesn’t explain anything about effect of our inner feelings?