New research reveals that our perception of others’ tears as sincere or manipulative depends heavily on context.

A new study adds to evidence suggesting that people's perceptions of others' tears as sincere or manipulative likely depend ...

Emma Bray, 42, was diagnosed with a terminal neurological condition two years ago. She decided to end her life by starving ...

We tend to give people a limited time to feel sad. But grieving people need to feel what they feel, for as long as they need ...

Don’t insult my grandma’s hermeneutics. Her theology may not have come from seminary, but it came from suffering and trust.

Gamal Abdel Nasser, as a young Egyptian army officer, was surrounded by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in ...

The mental, physical and financial toll of one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice has been revealed in a report on ...

Palestinian journalist Alaa Shamali curates a selection of stories from Gaza since 7 October 2023 that document Israel's war ...

The BBC explored workplace crying etiquette through reader experiences, revealing how gender affects perceptions of emotional ...

A commercial tricyclist, Lucky Okoro, recounts to BIODUN BUSARI how people insulted him for returning N4m to a Cameroonian ...

I once accused the PM and his chancellor of being too gloomy, writes John Rentoul. Turns out they were not gloomy enough – ...

"These aren't 'grumpy old cats', they're animals whose behaviour changes signal the need for veterinary attention." ...