The Science of Tears by Zachary Humenik

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 12
Date: December 18, 2015
Article: The Science of Tears
Author:  Zachary Humenik
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Questions

1. Why do people cry when they are emotional?
2. What are tears?
3. Who has studied crying at Tilburg University in the Netherlands?
4. How many types of tears exist?
5. What do you call the tears that wash your eyes clean when something gets in them?
6. What do we call the tears that are released in response to emotional states?
7. What do you call the tears that act as a protective barrier between the eye and the rest of the world?
8. When do emotional tears get release?
9. What is crying?
10. Who is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh?
11. Who says, "tears are a cry for help"?
12. Why do Professor Bylsma and Professor Vingerhoets feel humans have a prolonged childhood?
13. Do you think we have a prolonged childhood?
14. When did you cry last and why did you cry?



Reference:
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/vingerhoets/
http://www.psychiatry.pitt.edu/node/9230