New Theory for Why We Cry »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 3 months ago in Health & FitnessWe shed tears when in pain, but what purpose does crying have?
A scientist now proposes a new theory for why crying evolved — tears can act as handicaps to show you have lowered your defenses.
"Crying is a highly evolved behavior," said researcher Oren Hasson, an evolutionary biologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. "My analysis suggests that by blurring vision, tears lower defenses and reliably function as signals of submission, a cry for help, and even in a mutual display of attachment and as a group display of cohesion."
The shedding of tears due to emotions is unique to humans. In the past, researchers suggested that crying helps carry stressful chemicals away from the body, or that it simply makes us feel better, or that it lets babies signal health problems.
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orndorffter3 months ago
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That was a good article EE, I'am a cry baby anyway, I can read a story and it well touch me and I well cry, crying makes me feel better but then other ways when I'am hurt and my heart is sadden seems the tears only make it worth, and then sometimes I have tears of joy, I think a lot of us do. good story.
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Eagle_Eye3 months ago
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Here is something I have noted in my research with wild life and animals. They cry to...and not just the orphaned babies, but adult animals that I have had to treat, I would note tears in their eyes. Some day I will finish my book on animals and the experiences I have had with them and intend on including a segment on animal emotions including the crying.
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Ciera-Marie3 months ago
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You are so right EE. They feel pain and experience emotions too. Not on the same level we do, but it's just as valid.
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It kills me the way we in the US have gotten used to and have continued to allow, how animals are treated before we kill them for food. They know it's their purpose. If they're treated horribly, fed questionable food, piled on top of each other, etc, we eat that. And it tastes different. It really does.
Anyone growing up in a hunting family can tell if the game they're served had been overrun.
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