Tegan Taylor
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard 4d ago
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So uh Ian has basically scripted our whole episode for us, Norman, just all of the different ways that crying benefits us as a species.
I think probably we should start with what crying actually is, because it's not just sound, it's not just facial expressions, it's not just water coming out of our faces.
It's sort of this magical combination of the three.
psychic tears I I want to start a band, so I can just call it psychic tears.
It's such a cool phrase.
that's that's fascinating.
Uh you hear there's so many
Well, I was thinking about crocodile tears, but I've also heard I've heard of other animals shedding tears in sort of tails before, and I I I I would actually kind of second guess myself on this, but yeah, it does seem that the best systematic study to date, which did survey vets, as you say, said that there isn't evidence of emotional tears in any other animal species.
Not to say that other animals don't experience emotions, but they don't get faces wet when
They do it.
Yeah, I mean babies real cry really loudly.
It's sort of like, Come here, care for me Whereas when you get older
You you might cry tears but you're not w generally wailing.
It's funny, I was thinking about this and I was thinking about the fact that I consider myself to be a fairly frequent cry.
I definitely get teary fairly easily, but I couldn't tell you the last time I cried because I hurt myself.
You know, like when you're a kid and you fall over and scrape your knee, you cry, and that's a fairly normal response there.
I don't cry from pain, but I cry from much more emotional reasons or feelings of like awe rather than
Pain.
There's a wonderful chart in one of the research papers that we looked at for this, which talks about adult antecedents of crying.
So basically reasons prompting crying.
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