“…Compared with the dearth of empirical studies on professionals' tears in psychological literature, medical professionals have published multiple surveys, one case study, and several "op-ed" news pieces on crying behaviors of medical care providers (Barth, Egger, Hladschik-Kermer, & Kropiunigg, 2004;Blankenship, 1984;Krauser, 1989;Kukulu, 2006;Lerner, 2008;Majhail & Warlick, 2011;Sinclair, 2011;Sung et al, 2009;Wagner, Hexel, Bauer, & Kropiunigg, 1997). It is striking that, as a profession that so explicitly values emotions and interpersonal interaction, psychologists have attended less to the topic of tears than medical professionals.…”