In cultures in which differences were found, women cried more.
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Wood notes that in addition to crying, infant signaling modalities include other vocalizations such as fussing and facial expressions.
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The common type of coliccry, without organic alterations, follows a diurnal rhythm and occurs mainly in the afternoon and early evening hours.
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This is a rallyingcryrather than an admission of defeat, however, and research proceeds apace.
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The rallying cries of dissent become ever more ethereal and faint.
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Through this crying it was possible to be emotionally protected from making their emotions visible and thereby becoming vulnerable.
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In the majority of cases, however, there was a reduction in infant crying, little maternal distress, and normal attachment relationships.
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Participants tended to attribute all cries to hunger.
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Factorial designs would compare "manipulative," "colic," and "honest" (pain or hunger) cries.
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For example, an infant who is not very hungry maycrymanipulatively for nursing, care, or proximity.
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It is through acrythat the infant expresses its needs and desires and by silence or vocal sounds that it acknowledges contentment.
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Species-typical vocalizations such as crying and laughing are under minimal conscious control and are poor candidates for behavioral shaping.
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This weak position is coupled with the femalecry, the scream of fear or death - the non-verbal expression of impotence.
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Sometimes customers give no more than a passing glance at the stalls and little attention to the vendors' promotional cries.
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Therefore, each technologically craftedcryand artificially extended joyous moan ironically testifies to the unavoidable and primitive dictates of human physiology.
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Collocationswithcry
cry
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cry of anguish
At every stage in the growth of that debt, the nation has set up the samecryofanguishand despair.
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cry of despair
It is thecryofdespairnot to indicate to young people leaving school this week the sort of future they can expect.
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cry of distress
Why is it that last winter and last summer thecryofdistresswas so great that charitable people were asked to help?
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