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Emotional Tears Explained
- Emotional tears respond to intense emotions, both negative and positive, involving strong physiological arousal.
- These tears differ from basal tears that lubricate the eye and reflexive tears caused by irritants like onions.
Why Women Cry More
- Women cry three to five times more often than men across cultures.
- This likely arises from a combination of biological factors and social-cultural conditioning.
Tears of Joy vs. Sadness
- Tears of joy are rarer and harder to induce in a lab compared to cries of distress.
- Both types involve intense emotional experiences and physiological arousal, but biological differences remain unclear.