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breathing, elicited by emotional, painful, or ocular-irritant stimuli and used by infants as the primary distance signal that solicits care.", "scope_statement": "This model owns crying as a situated episode of expression, including reported experience, observable tears or vocal and bodily expressions, temporal course, interpretation uncertainty, and preferences about responses.", "in_scope": [ "Actual, reported, or suspected crying episodes, with the evidence supporting each designation", "Tears, crying vocalisations, sobbing, and associated facial or bodily expressions", "Onset, pauses, recurrence, cessation, and the person's reported recovery", "The person's account of the crying and its immediate circumstances", "Whether crying is spontaneous, deliberately enacted, mixed, or of unknown intentionality", "Requests, consent, and observed responses to comfort, privacy, or other assistance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Eye physiology, tear production mechanisms, and ocular conditions", "Diagnosis or treatment of medical and mental health conditions", "Emotions such as sadness, joy, frustration, or grief considered independently of crying", "Bereavement processes and enduring psychological histories", "Relationships, conflicts, and social norms beyond their relevance to the episode", "Recordings, performances, and media assets as independently managed things" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Visible tears alone do not establish a crying episode: distinguish evidence of crying from eye watering whose relation to crying is absent or uncertain.", "Reported sadness or distress without reported or observed crying expressions does not by itself establish crying.", "Vocal or bodily expressions may support an identification of crying when tears are not visible; record the evidence rather than requiring visible tears.", "When sounds could be laughing, coughing, shouting, or crying, preserve ambiguity and seek accompanying expression or the person's account.", "Distinguish a current crying episode from a depiction or recollection of one; mark deliberate enactment separately rather than presuming deception." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Episode identification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported crying | observed expressions consistent with crying | ambiguous | ruled out", "why_it_matters": "Separates an identification from the evidence and uncertainty supporting it." }, { "name": "Expression channels", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Multiple values: visible tears | crying vocalisation | sobbing | facial expression | bodily movement | other described expression | not observable", "why_it_matters": "Describes how the episode manifests without treating a single expression as conclusive." }, { "name": "Visible tear presentation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "not visible | eyes visibly wet | tears on cheeks | other described presentation | obscured | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records visible evidence while distinguishing absence of observation from absence of tears." }, { "name": "Temporal phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "onset | ongoing | paused | resumed | expressions ceased | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports tracking change without equating cessation with emotional recovery." }, { "name": "Observed duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds or minutes, with observation interval and known or unknown onset and end", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a partial observation from being mistaken for the full episode." }, { "name": "Reported emotional meaning", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Person's own terms; multiple, uncertain, undisclosed, or unavailable meanings permitted", "why_it_matters": "Avoids inferring sadness, relief, pain, or another experience solely from crying." }, { "name": "Attributed precipitant", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to an event, sensation, thought, or interaction, with attribution source and certainty; none identified permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates what preceded crying from what someone believes prompted it." }, { "name": "Intentionality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "reported spontaneous | reported deliberate | reported mixed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows enacted and spontaneous crying to be described without unsupported judgments about sincerity." }, { "name": "Response preference", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "company requested | privacy requested | specific help requested | no help requested | undecided | cannot currently communicate | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Guides action through expressed needs rather than assuming all crying calls for the same intervention." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a crying episode while separating observations, personal reports, and interpretations.", "Track changes in tears, vocal expression, pauses, and reported experience across an observation interval.", "Ask what the person wants when communication is possible, without demanding an explanation for crying.", "Offer or arrange requested company, privacy, a pause in an activity, or practical assistance.", "Reassess a response using the person's feedback and changes in the episode.", "Pass separately established urgent concerns to an appropriate assistance process without treating crying alone as a diagnosis." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "darwin-1872", "title": "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - John Murray", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Classic comparative account of weeping, infant crying, and the facial and respiratory pattern as an expressive behaviour, which still frames the distinction between tears and the full cry." }, { "id": "vingerhoets-2013", "title": "Why Only Humans Weep: The Science of Crying - Oxford University Press", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Current scientific synthesis of emotional crying as a human secretomotor-social behaviour, kinds of tearing, functions, and why adult weeping is not the same as infant cry." }, { "id": "bylsma-2019", "title": "The neurobiology of human crying - Clinical Autonomic Research (Springer)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Neural and autonomic control of emotional tearing and sobbing, and the clinical neighbour relationship to pathological crying." }, { "id": "barr-1990", "title": "The normal crying curve: what do we really know? - Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The age-related peak of infant crying/fussing around 5-8 weeks and the baseline against which \"excessive\" crying is judged." }, { "id": "icd10cm-r68-r45", "title": "ICD-10-CM: R68.11 Excessive crying of infant; R45.83 Excessive crying of child, adolescent, or adult - CDC/NCHS", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "How clinical coding schemes name crying as a symptom rather than as a disease entity." }, { "id": "aap-aht", "title": "Preventing Abusive Head Trauma Among Infants and Young Children - American Academy of Pediatrics", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Infant crying as the leading reported trigger for shaken-baby / abusive-head-trauma injury and the regulatory-educational response." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "crying-identification", "name": "Crying identification", "description": "Establishes what supports calling an event crying and where that identification remains uncertain.", "rationale": "Tears, vocalisations, and emotional accounts can be available separately; the model must preserve their evidential limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "expression-evidence", "name": "Expression evidence", "description": "Captures the expressions actually observed or reported.", "findings": [ { "id": "crying-expression-profile", "name": "Crying expression profile", "description": "Record tears, vocalisations, facial expressions, and bodily expressions separately, including which channels could not be observed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which expressions were observed or reported as part of this crying episode?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crying-expression-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied the identification of crying, and through what observation or account?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crying-expression-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lookalikes-and-representation", "name": "Lookalikes and representation", "description": "Separates crying from uncertain lookalikes and from representations of crying.", "findings": [ { "id": "crying-boundary-assessment", "name": "Crying boundary assessment", "description": "Record unresolved alternatives such as eye watering or laughter, and distinguish a live episode from a recording, recollection, or deliberate enactment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports identifying crying rather than eye watering, laughter, coughing, or another expression?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "crying-boundary-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Is the agent encountering an episode directly, an account or depiction of one, or crying deliberately enacted in a performance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "crying-boundary-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-course", "name": "Episode course", "description": "Describes how crying unfolds, pauses, and ends within the available observation.", "rationale": "A brief glimpse cannot establish the duration or trajectory of crying, and silence does not establish recovery.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-and-continuity", "name": "Onset and continuity", "description": "Locates the episode in time while preserving uncertain boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "crying-episode-boundaries", "name": "Crying episode boundaries", "description": "Record known onset, observation intervals, pauses, and resumptions without inventing continuity across gaps.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was crying first noticed, and is that time known to be its onset?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crying-episode-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "What supports treating resumed crying as part of this episode rather than a separate episode?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "crying-episode-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "expression-change-and-cessation", "name": "Expression change and cessation", "description": "Tracks changes in expression separately from changes in personal experience.", "findings": [ { "id": "crying-course-and-recovery", "name": "Crying course and recovery", "description": "Describe changes in observable crying and record any account of settling, continuing distress, or another experience independently.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have tears, vocalisations, and sobbing changed during the observed interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crying-course-and-recovery-q01" }, { "text": "If crying expressions have ceased, what does the person report about how they now feel?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crying-course-and-recovery-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "experience-and-meaning", "name": "Experience and meaning", "description": "Holds the person's account and attributed circumstances without assigning 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"description": "Connects crying to relevant circumstances while keeping causal interpretations explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-reason-for-crying", "name": "Attributed reason for crying", "description": "Separate preceding events from proposed reasons for crying and retain who offered each explanation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What event, thought, sensation, or interaction preceded the crying, if known?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-reason-for-crying-q01" }, { "text": "Who attributes the crying to that circumstance, and what remains uncertain about the attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-reason-for-crying-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crying-in-interaction", "name": "Crying in interaction", "description": "Describes how crying relates to the immediate activity, audience, and ability to communicate.", "rationale": "Crying during an interaction may change participation needs without establishing an intended message or motive.", "layers": [ { "id": "participation-during-crying", "name": "Participation during crying", "description": "Records the person's current ability and wish to continue the surrounding activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "crying-and-communication", "name": "Crying and communication", "description": "Record whether the person can and wants to speak, listen, respond another way, or pause the interaction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the person communicate comfortably while crying, and what communication method do they prefer?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crying-and-communication-q01" }, { "text": "Do they want the current conversation or activity to continue, slow down, or pause?", "kind": "action", "id": "crying-and-communication-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "audience-and-exposure", "name": "Audience and exposure", "description": "Captures who is present and the person's wishes about being seen, heard, or recorded while crying.", "findings": [ { "id": "crying-privacy-preferences", "name": "Crying privacy 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "excessive crying of infant", "weak cry", "breath holding spell", "Buka' al-Khashya", "encephalitic cry", "infant crying" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 93 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one crying from another, and a crying from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a crying sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a crying from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a crying passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a crying between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a crying, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a crying is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a crying proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a crying, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a crying and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a crying consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a crying takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What crying is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of crying are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is crying operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of crying and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of crying?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as crying?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a crying came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a crying and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a crying is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a crying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a crying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a crying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }