Emotional vs. physical tears, why are they different? Try Dashlane Premium free on your first device: www.dashlane.com/asapscience Check out our podcast channel: youtube.com/sidenotepodcast Join our mailing list: bit.ly/34fWU27 Written by Gregory Brown Editing by Luka Šarlija FOLLOW US! AsapSCIENCE TikTok: @AsapSCIENCE Instagram: instagram.com/asapscience Facebook: facebook.com/asapscience Twitter: twitter.com/asapscience REFERENCES: Adult Crying: A Biopsychosocial Approach - AJJM Vingerhoets, RR Cornelius - 2012 www.routledge.com/Adult-Crying-A-Biopsychosocial-Approach/Vingerhoets-Cornelius/p/book/9780415645720 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02134/full www.psypost.org/2020/12/eye-tracking-study-suggests-that-other-peoples-tears-act-as-a-magnet-for-our-visual-attention-58821 pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/29/4/579.short psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-66680-001 pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/145/6/e20192719 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejp.1623 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dev.22058 psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-87337-001