Sniffing women's tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds
Sniffing women's tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds
A fascinating study has found that sniffing female tears significantly reduced male aggression and decreased activity in aggression-related brain networks. It’s suggested that the effect, which is caused by chemical signals in tears and is also seen in rodents, serves a protective function.
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- Build woman beating robot
- Harvest tears from beatings
- Expose violent husbands to harvested tears. Domestic Abuse Abolished 👍
97This shouldn’t have made me laugh. But alas…
16I don't know if tears of joy or sadness will work, but maybe just try those before we build an army of woman pummeling robots? Surely synthetic tears are an option.
All I am saying is we don't need to go right to having robots take our jobs on this one.
8Only beat the single women in Japan. None of them will want to be single, so that will solve the birth rate issue.
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You know what we should study? What happens when you sniff women's tears.
Uh, what did you say Steve?
I said sniffing women's tears! It'll be awesome!!
Steve, are you ok man?
49It definitely started as feet.
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Nature has ways of self-regulating, but some of them are pretty dark.
17Male aggression leads to a lot of messed up shit. But some stuff is funny. There is this species of hummingbirds where males develop a bright purple star shaped plumage around their face. About 25 percent of females develop these characteristics too. Because bluffing yourself out of male aggression, outweighed the pro's of camouflage against predators. The biologist said that people often ask how it influnenced fheir chances at mating, to which he replied with: "I've seen male hummingbirds try to mate with a stump, so I don't expect it to be much of a problem." Adding to this, is that if too many females develop a male phenotype, the signaling "I am terretorial, stay away or I'll attack" of the feathers loses it's meaning and thus its protection.
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This 44 percents says a lot about scale of study and it's makes me uncomfortable that someone actually wanted to make people sniff women's tears for no reason at all
13Just because the reason isn't obvious doesn't mean it's not real. They probably had some indication of what to expect even before they started the experiment. That's where a lot of hypotheses come from in the first place.
10"for no reason at all"
Really? Those words alone say a lot about how dumb you are.
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"Your tears sustain my chill!"
11I smell a business opportunity.
8There was a New Wave band back in the 70s called Sniff and the Tears. I think they were ahead of their time.
6I keep a bottle in the glove box.
2Me, making this my slack profile of the week:
2What about male tears? What about female aggression? Sounds like a strange framing for the study.
-29Have you considered reading the article? Sound smile a strange comment making for the subject.
Having confirmed the effect of sniffing tears on men’s behavior, the researchers are keen to expand their research.
“When we looked for volunteers who could donate tears, we found mostly women because, for them, it’s much more socially acceptable to cry,” Agron said. “Now, however, we must extend this research to include women to obtain a fuller picture of this impact.”
From the study itself
Moreover, although we tested tears from women donors, we speculate that all tears would have a similar effect. This becomes particularly ecologically relevant with infant tears, as infants lack verbal tools to curb aggression against them and are therefore more likely to rely on chemosignals.
45Missed those lines, fair enough.
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