{"id":133218,"date":"2021-12-28T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T07:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/why-are-humans-the-only-animals-that-cry-when-theyre-sad"},"modified":"2021-12-28T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T07:23:03","slug":"why-are-humans-the-only-animals-that-cry-when-theyre-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/why-are-humans-the-only-animals-that-cry-when-theyre-sad","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Humans the Only Animals That Cry When They\u2019re Sad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rrle0mD92WU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The propensity to cry emotional tears is uniquely human. Of all the claims to human exceptionality\u2014consciousness, intelligence, innovation\u2014it is the liquid that falls from our eyes when we are sad, happy, jealous, angry, and grateful, more than anything else, that we can call ours, and ours alone.<\/p>\n<p>And yet the act of emotional crying is poorly understood. There is remarkably little consensus about the purpose of crying, its underlying physiology, and its impact on our moods. \u201cWhat intrigued me about crying is how few people in the world have been studying it,\u201d said Lauren Bylsma, an assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. \u201cYou would think with such a ubiquitous and important behavior, there would be more known about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The propensity to cry emotional tears is uniquely human. Of all the claims to human exceptionality\u2014consciousness, intelligence, innovation\u2014it is the liquid that falls from our eyes when we are sad, happy, jealous, angry, and grateful, more than anything else, that we can call ours, and ours alone. And yet the act of emotional crying is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}