MEL in the News

 

Jon Rottenberg is now a blogger for Psychology Today.  

Click here for a link to his blog, Charting the Depths

 

 

News Coverage of  Rottenberg, Bylsma & Vingerhoets' (2008) article  Is crying beneficial? published in Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Think Crying Is Cathartic? Not Always
July 30th, 2009

Scientific American

The Muddled Tracks of All Those Tears

online February 2, 2009, in print February 3, 2009

New York Times

 

It's OK to Cry, Possibly Even Beneficial

December 24, 2008

ABC News

 

Benefits of crying depend entirely on circumstances, study reveals

December, 23, 2008:

MSNBC
 

Jon Rottenberg is interviewed by the BBC on December 16th, 2008 about crying.

The segment starts about 24 minutes into the program.

BBC Radio:  All in the Mind Series