Theorists have staked out two ostensibly opposing views of human crying as either an arousing behavior that signals distress or a soothing behavior that reduces arousal after distress. The present study examined whether these views of crying might be reconciled by attending to physiological changes that unfold over crying episodes. Sixty female students watched neutral and cry-eliciting films w...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic examination of the relationship between depression and crying by reviewing all relevant theory and empirical data including the performance of crying items in measures of depression. METHOD Review of the extant literature on depression and crying using PubMed, PsychInfo and Google Scholar databases. RESULTS Scores on crying items of depression inventories c...

Although crying is woven through the life course, from the doctor’s slap to a deathbed vigil, there is no well-established lifespan tradition of studying crying. Instead the study of crying is broken into separate bodies of work on childhood (mostly on infants) and on adults. In this contribution, we share our enthusiasm and our ideas for the construction of a lifespan narrative of crying behav...

Backgrounds: Crying seizures is a rare type of seizure. Some scholars believe that crying seizures are mainly associated with lesions in the anterior temporal lobe, typically the non-dominant hemisphere, which has close connections with negative emotions. However, the role of amygdaloid lesions in crying seizures is not fully understood. Methods: By a patient with crying seizures and lesions in...

Crying commonly occurs in response to heel stick and adversely affects the infant's physiologic stability. Minimal crying in response to pain is desired. "Kangaroo Care," skin contact between mother and infant, reduces pain and may reduce crying in response to pain. The purpose of this pilot study was to test Kangaroo Care's effect on the preterm infant's audible and inaudible crying response t...

OBJECTIVE To assess duration of excessive crying and its relation to sleep and eating disturbances in a population sample of infants. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Random digit-dialing survey, enrolling birth cohorts between 1999 and 2003, in Germany. PARTICIPANTS Children aged 4 years and younger. MAIN EXPOSURES Excessive crying, retrospectively ascertained according to modifie...

The current project reports on an initial investigation into the factor structure of the Infant Crying Questionnaire (ICQ), a measure designed to assess parental beliefs about infant crying, in a sample of 259 primiparous mothers. Exploratory factor analyses yielded evidence for a five-factor structure to the ICQ, with two factors that may be conceptually viewed as infant-oriented beliefs regar...