Topic: Emotion

A mother and daughter in Chinatown in New York. Photo by Steve McCurry/Magnum

The science of love

We each carry an intricate machinery of love, calibrating and attuning our moods and bodies to one another

Barbara Fredrickson 15 March 2013
Larmes 1932. Photo by Man Ray © Man Ray Trust / Adagp - DACS

The waterworks

Tears of sorrow, tears of joy, tears of incontinence or of ecstasy. Crying must mean something – but what?

Thomas Dixon 22 February 2013