How Much do you Know About Your Tears? Find Out with This Test

by Nama · December 9, 2019

A simple and quick test to know how much we know about our tears. Whether they are of joy, of anger or related to stress, we accompany us throughout our lives.

Why do we continue to shed tears even when we grow up? Why do we feel more relaxed after crying? It is a question of hormones, but also of natural instinct. Tears are part of our life, even when we could communicate in other ways.

There are so many curiosities related to crying, how many do you know? Find out with this test and depending on the result you can cry tears of joy and/or anger!

Begin test

Do men and women cry differently?

True
False

Answer: True. According to Beth Ann Diktoff, author of ‘Why Don’t Your Eyelashes Grow? Curious Questions Kids Ask About the Human Body ‘, women cry differently than men, or their cheeks are completely flooded with tears. Men are more content.

How many tears do we produce each year?

Less than a liter
About 40 liters
About 120 liters

Answer: 120 liters. And yes, we cry a lot, according to a 2011 study published in the Journal of Research in Personality.

Are the tears all the same?

True
False

Answer: False. In reality, it is known that there are three types of tears: emotional ones, which we shed when we are sad, moved, happy or angry; those of reflex, which we pour in response to an external irritant stimulus and the basal ones, which keep the eye moistened and healthy.

Some tears are always in our eyes

True
False

Answer: True. Basal tears are always in our eyes and according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, they are intended to moisten the eye keeping it healthy.

Basal tears may depend on:

Powder
Smoke
Wind
All previous answers

Answer: All previous answers. Both dust and smoke and wind can affect the basal tears that work to protect the eyes.

Are emotional tears different than basal or reflex tears?

True
False

Answer: True. Emotional tears release some hormones, which is why, after crying, he feels even calmer.

What could you avoid making us cry while peeling the onion?

Peel it under running water
Use a fan to blow the smell away
Cool the onion before cutting it
All the above

Answer: All the above. While cutting an onion an enzyme is released which is perceived as harmful by the eyes. This is why basal tears are activated to protect the eyes.

Do crocodile tears really exist?

True
False

Answer: True. Many times we have heard the expression ‘crocodile tears’, according to the legend that after devouring the prey the crocodiles, they cry. In reality, according to scholars, crocodiles always have shiny eyes because they spend so much time in the water and need lubrication.

Babies all cry the same way

True
False

Answer: True. The parents know it well, that shrill, intermittent cry, which is common to all newborns. According to the author Tom Lutz at every age, there is a different sound and he tells it in Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears.

Women cry more than men and for longer periods

True
False

Answer: True. Women weep between 30 and 64 times a year, unlike men who do it 6 to 17 times. Women cry for at least six minutes, men at most four. All according to a study by the German Society of Ophthalmology.

If you put a child who doesn’t cry next to one who does, usually what happens?

The quiet child starts to cry
The crying child stops

Answer: The quiet child starts to cry. For a moment everyone hoped it was the second option, but unfortunately, it’s the first. In his book ‘Empathy and moral development’, Martin L. Hoffman says that children show empathy.