• April 28, 2024

Life is full of pleasant experiences , and others that are not so. However, why does witnessing or receiving a news that should be good cause us to cry? Really, are these tears a negative reaction?

According to a study conducted by the Yale University, This contradictory reaction has a quite logical origin: its objective is to maintain the emotional balance , through having some control under control feelings.

Biological intelligence

The psychologist Oriana Aragón , leader of the research, through another article published in the magazine Psychological Science , points out that this mechanism of self-defense of brain can also be seen exemplified in nervous laughter, which occurs at a time when a excessive stress or sadness

When you feel that sadness or joy they are reaching a limit that can not be handled physiologically, the body triggers an incongruous emotion that aims to balance "points Aragón.

This theory is supported under the context that "happiness lasts a few moments". Which is reality, according to the social psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky of the Active and Healthy Life Symposium of the Latin American Scientific Series.

For Lyubomirsky, human beings have a great capacity for "hedonistic adaptation", which consists of get used to everything positive what happens to us For this reason, happiness lasts only two years.

Now that you know what motivates crying when you is happy, You will not be surprised to see it when you give a pleasant news to whom you love. Beware!