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Sniffing women’s tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds

newatlas.com 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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Hacker News @derp.foo Sniffing women's tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds

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This could get real dark

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Before playing the game, the participants sniffed either female tears or a saline solution

Why would they not include male tears in the test?

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As the wise man Borat once said:

"Do not fear me gypsy, all I want from you is your tears. Please give them to me or I will take them."

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What am I supposed to do with this information

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Must be why they prefer to make us suffer from a distance, sitting safely in Congress and the courts where they won't be exposed to our tears

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This is a fucking crazy statistic. What the shit.

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The journal isn't such a high prestige journal. It's actually a new one with open access, which doesn't attract best studies. Combined with the fact it's a psychological study, which is hard to replicate, and somehow the authors employed MRI, which doesn't really prove anything by itself, I think the authors knew it wouldn't be perceived as the best quality article.

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Sometimes I wonder how much I am really in control and how much it is biochemical weapons by living things around me.

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How... uhh... yea like how did someone even come up with this as a thing to uhhh... study? How the shit did someone's brain arrive at "let's get women's tears and uhhh present them to aggressive men." Like... what?

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Ok, liberal women of America. Here's your chance. Cry those liberal tears they all want you to cry and then throw the tear jars in their faces!

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It usually makes me horny, but yeah, I guess you could say that’s not aggressive.

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It just gets me hard, not a good combo.

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sniffing the tears of men just makes us more powerful

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I could imagine, yes, that 44% of aggressive men would stop dead in their tracks if shouted "SMELL MY TEARS! SNIFF'EM, GEORGE!" mid fight

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I have a business idea

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How does one even begin to have a hypothesis to even decide to test this? Why does one? Any answer feels like it would be morally questionable or involve a fetish of some kind.

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So eh...what is this going to lead too if the effects are worth the effort?

Like women farms, to harvest their tears that will be sold as medicine at a premium or something?

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Who the hell designed this study? We're going to get a bunch of dudes super mad and then make them sniff tears of women.

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Next up, sipping on orphan tears.

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I think I played a video game about that

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Do we have to sniff them or can they be ingested orally?

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What if you're gay?

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Lol this is so old

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