There was a time when crying in front of others might have induced shame and embarrassment. But for younger generations who can scarcely remember a time without social media, it’s now common to post ...

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 ...

Like so many of us, Rose Armitage, a 20-year-old from Las Vegas, is a crier during arguments. It doesn’t matter how well-reasoned her points are or how much of the moral high ground she has, when she ...

Crying is one of the most common emotional reactions in humans. Pretty much everyone has cried at one time or another in their life. Given the common occurrence of crying in all sorts of negative (and ...

Crying over grief has a long, long history. Once upon a time, you just didn’t cry. You didn’t think about it, you just got on with life—for survival’s sake. There simply was no time to cry. You had to ...