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131. Why Do We Cry?

No Stupid Questions

Crying? Is It a Reaction to Franco and Your Father?

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"This is an Edinburgh and we bring in this beautiful piece of fiddle music. Now I start crying." "I thought, well, maybe that was my response to Franco and my father that was pent up somehow," he says. A psychologist at Tilburg University has identified five broad antecedents for emotional tears: Loss or separation seems pretty obvious; Helplessness or powerlessness? Interesting. Empathic crying also makes sense. But number five, the last one,  this is the one that I subscribe to, a response to extraordinarily positive or moving situations'

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