Crying: discussing its basic reasons and uses

Tears in the Graeco- …, 2009

Annals of Psychology, 2022

The aim of two preliminary studies reported in the article was to identify the main reasons for crying and to create a set of situational vignettes that would refer to specific situations or events that potentially can make people cry. In Study 1 (n = 61), we asked participants to list six general reasons behind crying. In Study 2 (n = 70), participants were asked to identify specific situations in which people shed emotion-related tears. As a result, we selected a set of 34 situational vignettes. Each of them is a short and gender-neutral description of a specific emotional reason that can make people cry and is related to one of the following basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, or fear. The vignettes can be used to manipulate the emotional basis of tears in experimental research.

Meeting of the International Society for …, 2007

The Perception of Crying in Women and Men: Angry Tears, Sad Tears, and the "Right Way" to Cry Cell phones. You never know what news a call might bring. And in a public place it can be difficult to get a handle on the roller-coaster of emotions that ensues. Chris is upset. News of the divorce is surprising, yet not totally unexpected. Making matters worse, the phone call comes at a restaurant while Chris sits with friends at the table, surrounded by a roomful of strangers. The news is too much. And then it happens-along with the growing anger, tears well up in Chris' eyes.

Emotion Regulation, 2008

How crying unfolds in interaction, and how it is responded to, are the focus for study. We (a) briefly review the existing literature on crying; (b) discuss the complex features of the conduct that is collected together under the vernacular category crying; and (c) address the delicate interactional challenges involved in recognizing and responding to crying. Analysis highlights the profoundly public nature of such matters, and how they can be recognised and normatively organized.

Motivation and Emotion, 2015

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Research in psychotherapy, 2024

Although emotion research has experienced a clear upswing in recent decades, crying has often been ignored (Frijda, 2012; Vingerhoets, 2013). In the psychological literature, crying is understood as a form of emotional expression that is constituted by an interplay of biological, psychological, and social variables (Vingerhoets & Bylsma, 2016). Both intrapersonal and interpersonal functions are attributed to crying, and it is often associated with sorrow and distress. However, the emotions that provoke crying can be very multifaceted (Gračanin et al., 2018). In most of the relevant literature, emotional tears are not differentiated further. Although various triggering emotions are postulated, it is usually not considered whether these lead to a different quality of crying. Some efforts have been made to categorize tears in a rather descriptive way along triggering themes or antecedents [either data-driven as in Denckla et al. (2014) or theory-based as in Barthelmäs et al. (2022)]. Other attempts to differentiate forms of crying along the phases within a grieving process refer to well-known grief models (Kast, 1982, 1988; Kübler-Ross, 1977). These models go beyond the descriptive and include assumptions about the meaning and function of the different forms of crying. For example, Nelson (2005) argues that crying is always associated with loss. Within this rationale, she

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013

This article discusses inter-and intra-personal motives for the regulation of crying, and presents illustrative findings from an online survey (N = 110) exploring why and how people regulate crying in their everyday lives. In line with current theorizing on emotion regulation and crying (e.g., , we propose that emotional crying is regulated using both antecedent-focused techniques targeting the underlying emotion and responsefocused techniques targeting the act of crying itself. Indeed, our survey respondents reported having used both antecedent-and response-focused strategies to either upregulate or down-regulate their crying. Motives for crying regulation may be both inter-and intra-personal and may serve both immediate, pleasure motives, and future, utility motives (Tamir, 2009). Our findings suggest that down-regulation attempts are often driven by interpersonal motives (e.g., protecting the well-being of others; impression management) in addition to intra-personal motives such as maintaining subjective well-being, whereas upregulation attempts are mostly driven by intra-personal motives. Further progress requires methodologies for manipulating or tracking regulation motives and strategies in real-time crying episodes.

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016

Crying is physiological and psychological condition and it occurring with organism whether voluntary or involuntary. In current research, researchers shed light on the process of crying with humans and for both of them male and female. The sample have ranged and for both male and female between 15 years to 25 years. The sample consisted school and high education students in addition employees from public and private sector. The objectives of this research was to know the differences between maleand female in the number of times crying and its relationship to their age. Also this research aim to knowing the reasons of crying with humans either was male or female as well as to knowing types of tears. Finally, researchers highlighted the emotional crying with Omani adults and analyse reasons of it. The result shows that Omani females cry more than males crying between 15 to 17 years (binging of adolescent Stage) old but with the onset of adulthood, case is reflected, where males increases in the number of time crying than females, specifically from age 18 to age 22 or 23.This is due to the fact that males begin their university life and begin with the personal, emotional and social responsibility which push males to the difficulty encountered thus showing signs of sadness and oppression and begin shedding tears but in isolation from the social world around him. Then, after 23 years old and above, females start to increase comparing with malesand this is due to feminine nature that tend to the passion and the incapability to control their emotions compared to males which their nature tend to stay away from passion as much as they can and reliance on the mind and thinking in solving the problems they face it. Crying is a condition that occurs when the unconscious human confronted with the position or watching a tragic view, so that it cannot bear this scene or situation, so his/her eyes shed tears. Humans do not differ in expression of crying except in some small details and whether human beings throughout history or in the present time and in any area, whether in Middle East or Far East or in Africa or European society, because human have almost similar characteristics, it is a human characteristics shared by all human beings such as sadness, happiness, feeling of distress, carry worries and others. This study highlight on one of the feelings of humanity, which is a crying or sadness and reasons and motives that make people start to cry, and what are the situations that make him or her to cry and how that affects attitudes of humanity.