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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calles for tears.

Babies are born with two important skills to prepare them for empathy – the ability to begin to imitate facial gestures and the automatic responses in which the cries of other infants causes another infant to cry (Szalavitz & Perry, 2010). From the first hour after birth, babies can imitate several

Emotions play an extremely important role in human mental life. Unlike the chimpanzee, human emotions are easier to read because of their physical responses such as tears in their eyes or their lips changing shape. In the same way as chimpanzees, humans use gestures to communicate with each other, yet they use words instead of sounds.

Inference: Character is crying at the thought of not crying because he fears he has no compassion or emotions.

This is what the author shows about life or human condition that all humans have to deal with grief. It is just a natural function that everyone has to deal with whether they show it or not. There isn’t a person who can have a loved one or somebody close to them die and not feel any grief whatsoever. It is a natural human instinct that happens. “He's a good boy” (280).

Today, gender roles somewhat loosened compared from the past years, and cultural winds have somehow shifted back the idea of crying as a sign of manliness. Sharon Martin, a licensed psychotherapist in a private practice in San Jose, California, suggests that there are many advantages to having a good cry. “I encourage crying because it purges negative energy and allows for new, positive energy to fill us up. Sometimes people feel embarrassed or ashamed about crying, especially in public. Crying is normal and nothing to be ashamed of,” she told Medical Daily in an email (Borelli par 3). “Shedding a few tears does not only mentally cleanse us, it can cleanse our body too, she added (Borelli par 4).”

During the first weeping session, Rowlandson cries as she sits alone and sees the group of natives rejoicing and being with one another. This image of a celebratory group while feeling out of place may remind her of the fact that she is far from her home, her family, and everything familiar - her crying seems to be something that was in the making and not simply out of the blue. Rowlandson says:

Summary The article “Why We Cry”, written by Mandy Oaklander, describes a variety of aspects about crying such as human tears’ biological and evolutionary purposes. First of all, scientists try to convey and research why emotional crying still exists in human society and if it has benefits because Charles Darwin said that emotional tears are useless in his evolutionary theories. Different scientific researchers believe in different perspectives, and they are still competing with each other to get the true result in the modern society.

In chapter 8 of Handbook of Emotions, The Evolutionary Psychology of the Emotions and Their Relationship to Internal Regulatory Variables, Tooby & Cosmides (2008) thoroughly discuss the theories of how emotions came to be. The overall conclusion is that emotions did not inadvertently occur, but instead were specifically designed and evolved to solve distinct issues that would affect the probability of fitness. Emotions evolved to utilize physical responses based on environmental cues in order to promote the individual’s overall success.

The facial expressions of adult grief is seen as a result of an adults inhibition of the tendency to

During the course of my internship, I frequently wondered about the reasons why babies cry. Despite my best efforts to appease everything that I thought might be the problem, sometimes the baby would continue to scream and cry. Harding notes that babies do not cry out of a desire to relay a particular message, but that they merely cry due to distress or discomfort. However, when others respond to the cry as if the baby is trying to communicate a particular message, that it can help the caregiver to differentiate between different types of cries and other signals given by the infant. This can in turn possibly influence the baby’s recognition of the effects his or her vocalizations has on the behavior of others.

INTRO: “ Grief is NOT a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve” (Earl Grollman)

This evolutionary psychology -emotions presents the precise kind of governing function by arranging systems of perception, attention, energy and effectiveness, goal pursuit, as well as the activation of specialized activating specialized interpretations, diversifying decision weightings, and determining behavior (Tooby, Cosmides 1990). They emphasize using the emotion of fear: For example, envision walking by yourself down a dark road and hearing a loud rustling or noise in the bushes nearby. Then your emotions and energies become more aroused as the noises get louder and closer; now indicative of someone or something is stalking you; the verge for detecting movement also becomes lowered, and you are no longer feeling the discomfort of hunger, your interest of captivating someone of the opposite sex is now a thing of the past- “fight or flight,” hide, halt, stand where you are, etc. these reactions and emotions may vary dependent upon the circumstances. Thus these evolutionary concepts are specific to the development of humans and their ability to adapt and

Good morning! My name is Anna Johnson. I chose the middle-range theory of chronic sorrow as my project topic. This presentation will include an overview of how this theory came into existence, what the theory is and its components, as well as analyze the usefulness and testability of this theory. I hope you enjoy as you learn more about this theory.

Paul Ekman was influenced by Charles Darwin’s book titled, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, originally published in 1872. Charles Darwin used photos, drawings and body postures from animals and humans and compared them with facial expressions and emotions. For instance, a growling dog has many facial features similar to an angry human. “Darwin argued that the existence of these similarities demonstrates that emotional expression must have evolved through natural selection in the same way that other characteristics evolved. He further contended that the expressions must serve a function; they enhance survival of the organism”. (Reevy, G. 2010 Encyclopedia of Emotion (Vol. 2, pp. 410-411). I believe