Crying is normal during, unhappy moments, depression, or sad incidents. Their son came out holding his certificate of master's degree in microbiology while they were crying with their eyes full of tears. There are certain similar happy occasions like that. The phenomena of weeping or shedding tears during happy moments need some explanation. Why do we cry when we are happy?
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What a tough question! I think only our master Google is able to answer hahah
Amanda Pacifico, tambien estoy acuerdo contigo. In an answer to your question, the handsome guy of My EC, Mr. Rysperski tried to help us. As I said, I did not know the answer myself. Again, thanks for your first comment, and thanks for the useful tips from him.
Oi there, folks
This time I shall avoid all sorts of pseudo flolklore philosophy to answer Dara's question in an attempt to be more credible. Here is what scientists have to say in this matter:
Whether it was on your wedding day, at the birth of your child, or when your team won the Super Bowl, you have probably cried tears of joy at some point. And that’s normal — our faces frequently seem at odds with our feelings (how about that look of pain when you eat something delicious or see something cute?) “People can have negative expressions, but feel positive feelings,” psychologist Oriana R. Aragón, who studies emotion regulation and facial expressions, told Fatherly.
Through multiple studies, Aragón and others have tracked how our facial expressions correspond to our emotions. Although researchers once suspected that tears of joy come about because of latent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or loss, Aragón, who first empirically tested happy tears in 2015, disagrees. “We found that on explicit and implicit measures of how people are feeling, that people can cry even when they do indeed report predominantly positive feelings, not negative feelings.
And subsequent studies have confirmed that you don’t need to be a new parent or an intoxicated sports fan to cry even when you feel happy — you just have to have feelings, and a face.
If we don’t cry happy tears because we’re sad deep down, why do we do it? The short answer, Aragón says, is that crying intensifies life’s happiest moments. Our tears release neurotransmitters known as leucine enkephalin, which can act as a natural painkiller. When people cry because they’re sad, this makes them feel better. But when people cry because they’re happy, that same neurotransmitter makes them feel that much happier. In other words, tears encourage catharsis.
A more complex explanation for tears of joy involves the theory that our brains don’t always know the difference between positive and negative emotions. The hypothalamus, an almond-sized part of the limbic system, responds to emotions through strong neural signals from the amygdala which cannot always discern the difference between happy and sad signals, Jordan Gaines Lewis, a professor of psychiatry at Penn State, explains. When happy and sad signals get their wires crossed, this activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which helps us calm down after trauma and releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Acetylcholine tells our tear ducts to get busy. So we cry.
In a 2009 study in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, Oren Hasson took a novel approach. He proposed that crying is a social cue that broadly means: “don’t attack me, consider appeasing me, I’m in need of close friends right now, I’m certainly not going to harm you”. Crying, then, makes sense for both sad and happy situations — biology’s way of tearing down barriers and facilitating bonding.
Children are just as likely to cry happy tears as adults, Aragón says, and men are just as likely as women to cry tears of joy. “We have found that both men and women cry happy tears,” she says.
Yak she majch Rysperski! It's late now. Tomorrow, I shall read and benefit from your useful study.
niesamobity Rysperski! My friend, you have really worked hard and looked for many references to get all those useful tips regarding my question. I personally did not know about the answer but that amazing intervention of yours is quite a piece of information. I knew that you troubled yourself a great deal to come up with these different studies.
One thing is not quite clear to me, Rys! Why The Wedding? I just want to tell you something, Rys, some of us show opposite feelings to the real ones inside them. For instance, I did not show any joy when I got my Autocad certificate. I was afraid of my colleagues to envy me. Instead, my face was gloomy and sad.
The matter is concerning our brains and those signals that come from them. In fact, many useful tips are to be extracted from that intervention of yours. I really appreciate your time going through different books and studies to bring us that valuable information. Rys, I want to tell you, never go angry to bed. Many many thanks, my handsome fellow.
a question dara... when was your last cry =)
Saya tidak tahu, Fizzy tetapi thanks for your innocent question.
Dear Dara, I think that the action of crying is emotional, this reaction appear with bad and good things and emotional moments too but from my point of view crying is good not bad,some people see this reaction as if you are a weak person, have a nice day,
quien no esta da aquerda, eniora Amanda? No one disagrees with lovely ladies like you, my dear cute friend. The reaction of the action made someone famous. Thanks for your useful comment.
I completely agree!
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