• Question: why do people cry when they laugh

    Asked by jayneic to Steve on 18 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by livieee98, ken101.
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      Steven Gardner answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      That’s an excellent question and I didn’t know the answer so I tried to look it up.

      Turns out no one really knows for sure why this is. One theory is that laughing causes the realease of hormones that make us cry as a side effect (the same ones released why people cry ‘tears of joy’).

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