Back in 2013, a Japanese man named Hiroki Terai put a bunch of people in a room and made them cry. Terai was the successful founder of a strange business: his company organized “divorce ceremonies” ...

The researchers in the California study suggested that crying between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. might be most effective for weight loss. But what if there was a simpler way to help shed some pounds? Believe ...

After Michael Harwell’s wife died of brain cancer two years ago, he learned to embrace the grieving process by relishing 56 years worth of memories from his marriage, and sharing them with friends.

The phrase “a good cry” dates back to at least the mid-1800s while the phrase “cry it out” dates as far back as the mid-1600s. Both phrases suggest in our lay language that crying can relieve some ...

Crying is a natural response to a wide variety of emotions, ranging from extreme sadness to extreme happiness. Since the ancient era, crying has been regarded as a natural phenomenon that helps ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Crying has been one of the most popular activities of the past four to eight ...