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Why do people cry? Maybe tears are good for us. Maybe they calm our minds and cleanse our bodies. Yet researchers have shown that crying can make people feel worse. Psychologists from the US and the Netherlands recently studied crying. They checked detailed descriptions of crying experiences. They studied crying as it happens in everyday life, not in a laboratory.
Three thousand people from different countries participated in the study. Most of them were college students. The...