March 6, 2016
SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP:
Is crying good for you? (Luisa Dillner, 6 March 2016, The Guardian)
In laboratory studies where crying is induced, people actually report feeling more distressed. A study from the University of California at Berkeley showed 150 women a clip from the film Steel Magnolias, in which a mother is crying at her daughter's funeral. A total of 33 cried and 117 did not. Those who cried felt more pain and distress for a longer period of time. The authors argued that crying created a state of greater distress, which took longer to recover from.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2016 2:22 PM