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The answer is a negative reaction helps us deal with radostyu

Researchers say: if you cry at weddings happiness, then you answer negative reaction to a happy experience. And they believe that such an unusual reaction helps restore emotional balance in the future to keep strong emotions under control.

The researchers say that their work will help shed light on how people express and control their emotions, which in turn will improve the understanding of the mental health of people.

Oriana Aragon led the study, a psychologist at Yale University, who really wanted to deal with a combination of "tears of joy", which in her opinion, did not make sense.

But she better understands why people cry when they are happy.

"Such a reaction of the people restore peace of mind. I think this happens when a person is overloaded by strong positive emotions, and in this way people recover quickly from such emotions »

blockquote> In the report, published in the journal Psychological Science, shows the various examples of negative reactions to positive developments, such as the tears of his wife during a meeting with her husband, a soldier, tears teenage girls at a concert of Justin Bieber, and so on. < br />


It also provides some evidence that the strong negative feelings can trigger positive reactions. For example, the nervous laughter often arises when people are faced with very difficult or frightening situations. And yet people are known to psychologists, smiling at moments of extreme sadness.

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