2009/8/11 deripsni <[email protected]>

>
> If one sees a person crying, they see the result of the emotion, not the
> emotion itself, since people shed tears for a variety of reasons such
> as sorrow or joy.
>


That's not an unreasonable thing to say, but, if you had access to chemical
analysis, you would see that you're demonstrably wrong. In fact the person
crying is expelling a polypeptide tropic hormone called corticotropin, its
principle effect being the production of androgens which stimulate neurons
in your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, where a number of emotions are
regulated.

Ian

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