Why do only humans cry?

Ad Vingerhoets is a clinical psychologist who focuses on stress and emotion. He has spent more than 20 years studying when and why we cry, and how the study of crying may help us obtain better insight into human nature.

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Darwin described weeping as purposeless. Was he wrong? Ad Vingerhoets, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University, believes that emotional tears have played an important role in our evolution and still serve important functions. His TEDxAmsterdam talk focuses on the question: why do only humans weep?

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Tears were and still are crucial to our functioning

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