Shedding a Tear

The following excerpt is from Chapter 16, "Boys Crying and Girls Playing Dumb," from Faking It (Cambridge University Press and the copyright holder. ©William Ian Miller 2003. The Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, William's research used to center on Saga Iceland from whence the materials studied in the bloodfueds course at University of Michigan Law School came from and his book Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland. He presently writes on emotions, mostly unpleasant ones involving self-assessment, and select vices and virtues.