From the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\nA team of Israeli researchers believes that tears, in addition to everything else they convey, send a sexual message that can be summarized as: “Now’s not a good time.” In a study published online Thursday by the journal Science, the researchers report that men who sniff tears cried by sad women experience a temporary decline in both sexual arousal and circulating testosterone, a hormone tied to libido. <\/p>\n
Each woman chose a movie to elicit crying, watching it in private and collecting her own tears. By far the most successful tear-inducer was the dying scene in “The Champ,” a 1979 film starring Jon Voight about an over-the-hill boxer making a comeback in order to provide a better future for his son, whom he is raising on his own.<\/p>\n
“That scene is a winner,” Sobel said. “Emotion labs all over the world use it to establish sad mood.”<\/p>\n
Other reliable tear-jerkers were the Italian film “La Vita E’ Bella” (“Life Is Beautiful”), “Terms of Endearment,” “When a Man Loves a Woman” and the Israeli movie “Broken Wings.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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