Thursday, January 6, 2011

Women's tears are a real turn off for men.Are criminals immune ?Maybe they can not smell?

WOMEN'S tears appear to deflate a man's desire for her, at least temporarily.
Tears contain chemicals that, when sniffed by men, decrease their sexual arousal and cause their testosterone levels to drop, according to research published today in the journal Science and conducted by a cognitive neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
In one experiment, men were asked to rate women's photographs for attractiveness. They found them less sexually attractive when they were sniffing tears than when they put vials of saline to their nostrils.
In another, scientists measured brain activity in men associated with arousal as they smelled either tears or saline. Again, smelling tears lowered activity in the neural networks associated with arousal.
It is the first such study of emotional tears and whether they carry chemical components that act as some type of subliminal signal. They were previously thought to be a visual signal among humans.


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Some criminals are immune to these chemicals, maybe they do not smell?
It could be useful for scientists interested in decreasing or eliminating sexual violence against women and children.

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