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Gateway Capital, the Milwaukee-based venture firm Scientists have discovered that a highly unusual g Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is t OpenAI is acquiring TBPN, a business talk show tha When University of California Berkeley allowed the TBPN, Silicon Valley’s cult-favorite tech po A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acr Flipboard’s social websites consolidate prof Most laser sources produce Gaussian beams that div ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs usin Archaeologists in the Netherlands recently discov Slow roiling convection currents deep within Earth A trio of tech pranksters have launched a website Documents show that one of Google’s new data cen If you don’t have anything nice to say, perh NASA Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman faced the m In common parlance, allowing yourself to have a “good cry” about something is usually associated with feelings of being freed or released from burden or stress. Yet there’s surprisingly little scientific research on the matter, leaving the question of whether there are actually emotional benefits to a nice sob session. Now, in a study published in the journal Collabra: Psychology, Karl Landsteiner University psychology professor Stefan Sieger and his colleagues tried to establish a more scientifically rigorous assessment of the effects of “emotional crying.” In an experiment, they invited 106 adult participants from Austria and Germany to track and self-report their emotional states 15, 30, and 60 minutes after a “crying episode was reported,” as well as their end-of-day emotional state, over a four-week period. (Just over 70 percent of participants were women, while 25 percent self-reported were men and around four percent reported as neither.) “Crying is a basic human behavior,” Stieger told PsyPost. “I was astonished that very little research has been done on crying in field-like settings.” The researchers found that women cried almost twice as frequently a month than men, at just shy of 5.8 crying episodes over the month-long study, compared to just 2.6 for… As strikes continue on Iran’s nuclear facilities The details of how animal life began are a bit mu Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of anima