5 strange facts about crying

Sure, everybody sheds the occasional tear. But new research shows some surprising trends behind the science of how and when we sob

posted on May 5, 2011, at 4:32 PM

Speaker of the House John Boehner has been known to shed his fair share of tears: A new study shows that as men age, they tend to cry more easily. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Tears are universal, but not everybody cries the same way, or with the same frequency. Researchers have been trying for years to figure out the biological and cultural forces that might explain, for instance, the differences between the way men and women cry. Here, five discoveries about the science of weeping

via theweek.com

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