The sad face, or crying face, filter has been taking over TikTok this past week with an ongoing influx of viral videos showing the strange-yet-hilarious effect. Each video takes the same plot: someone ...

Pop is no longer what it used to be. As time has passed, the genre has moved with it, subbing squeaky clean, over-produced tracks for more realistic, modern takes. Part of that evolution includes the ...

Don't judge too quickly — this one's complicated. We all know people who just can't seem to cry. They are usually men, although women aren’t immune to this issue entirely. We all also know that ...

After a difficult day, sometimes you can’t wait to get home, grab a Kleenex box, and let all your emotions pour out along with your tears. With those few minutes of sobbing behind you comes a ...

Snapchat's "sad face" or "crying face" filter is taking over our social media scrolls, and the emotional range of the videos being created has us LOLing big time. Snapchat's "crying filter," which ...

Crying as an expression of emotion appears to be uniquely human behavior. Other animals may tear up because of irritants in their eyes, but only humans shed tears at times of extreme sadness or joy.

A dear friend of mine whom I recently lost spent most of his life near the Severn River in Maryland. The Severn is technically a “tidal estuary”—a brackish inlet off the Chesapeake Bay, where salt ...

Sad songs say so much, as Elton John once opined. But sad movies, well, they can totally wreck you for days. Weeks. Years. Sad movies can make you cry, they can make you emotional, and it doesn't ...

Carly Osborn has previously held a postdoctoral research fellowship in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has also previously received several small grants for research and ...

I always thought there was nothing chic or dignified about crying over a boy. I knew I should feel my feelings and let them pass but looking at myself in the mirror, red-eyed, damp and puffy-faced, ...