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HTTP:: Scientists Propose New Explanation for Crying
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People tend to start crying from a large number of reasons, ranging from disappointments, bad news, failures and severe pain, but experts have thus far failed to understand the exact role that this behavior has for our species. Tel Aviv University (TAU) evolutionary biologist and researcher Oren Hasson now proposes that tears running down our cheeks may, in fact, act like a signal to other humans, showing that we have lowered our defenses. This, in turn, could lead to others’ around us being emotionally blinded and unable to “attack,” LiveScience reports. “Crying is a highly evolved behavior. My analysis suggests that by blurring vision, tears lower defenses and reliably function as signals of submission, a cry for help, and even in a mutual display of attachment and as a group display of cohesion,” Hasson says. Previous explanations of crying have made the habit to be a need for releasing harmful chemicals from the body, a way for newborns to signal health prob!
lems, or simply a way to make a sad person feel better. But the TAU scientist proposes that seeing tears handicaps aggressive behavior in potential attackers. He also underlines the double advantage that crying has in desperate, public situations. On the one hand, the victim shows the aggressor that they are submiss...
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