Courtney explained that she arrived to her early-morning shift at the coffee shop in her usual "loud ... the first face I saw this morning and you really brightened my day." In tears, the barista ...

We usually associate emotional tears with sadness and grief. Why, then do we also cry when we're overcome with positive emotions like joy or relief? Yale psychologist Oriana Aragon co-authored a ...

Vingerhoets says what struck him most about the paper was that Kikusui and colleagues looked for—and found—so-called tears of joy. Most of the research on emotional tearing examines crying that ...