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afraid_of_zombies ,

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

FooBarrington ,

You can do what you want, but you can’t want what you want.

greedytacothief ,

Is this compatibilism?

FooBarrington ,

No, this is Patrick!

Soggy ,

Similar biochemicals are flooding your internal systems all the time.

agitatedpotato ,

Thanks, I hate it.

only0218 ,

But why

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

I think I played a video game about that

FrankTheHealer ,

This is a fucking crazy statistic. What the shit.

MaxVoltage ,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

Now, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have conducted a series of experiments to investigate whether, like in rodents, sniffing human female tears reduces aggression in men and what functional effect it has on their brains.

“We knew that sniffing tears lowers testosterone and that lowering testosterone has a greater effect on aggression in men than in women, so we began by studying the impact of tears on men because this gave us higher chances of seeing an effect,” said Shani Agron, the lead and co-corresponding author of the study.

There’s limited evidence of human tear chemosignaling, but a previous study by some of the researchers involved in the current study found that women’s tears contain an odorless chemical signal that, when sniffed by males, reduced self-rated sexual arousal, physiological measures of arousal, and testosterone levels.

First, the researchers tested whether sniffing female tears reduced aggression in men. ‘Emotional’ tears were collected from six human donors aged 22 to 25 who watched sad film clips in isolation to induce crying. Twenty-five men were asked to play a two-person monetary game with an opponent they were told was human but was, in fact, a computer algorithm. The game was designed to elicit an aggressive response by the male toward their opponent, whom they were led to believe was cheating. When given the opportunity, the male could get revenge on their opponent by causing them to lose money with no personal gain to them.

Before playing the game, the participants sniffed either female tears or a saline solution – both are odorless – but were not told what they were sniffing. The researchers observed a 43.7% reduction in aggression following exposure to tears. To evaluate the robustness of their results, they ran a bootstrap analysis, a statistical procedure that resamples a single data set to create many simulated samples. The analysis found that the probability of obtaining this outcome by chance was 2.9%, suggesting that, like in rodents, chemosignals in human emotional tears have a primary aggression-blocking function.

Fungah ,

I have this thing where I tend to get a raging hard-on when a woman is crying near me, like if a my girlfriend is sad and I’m consoling her:: boijg.

I have no intellectual inte=st a woman crying, and generally don’t feel “turned on”, like, I’ll generally just try and }pretend like it’s not happening and have no urge to do anything about it. I’ve always kind of wondered “what the fuck” every time it happens since there’s nothing I find remotely interesting sexually about it. Now though, I wonder.

SoleInvictus ,
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.world avatar

Holy shit, me too! Same as you, I don’t actually feel aroused, it’s just there, like the random erections teenagers get. It used to make me really uncomfortable when I was younger, I just grew to accept it over the years. I’ve never heard anyone else mention it before, now I’m wondering if it’s more common than I thought.

Fungah ,

Normalize talking about cryboners

elbarto777 ,

there’s nothing I find remotely interesting sexually about it

I don’t know, man. Getting a boner each time is… an indication.

jpreston2005 ,

you’re attracted to the open display of emotion. Probably because you’re repressing your own.

douglasg14b ,
@douglasg14b@lemmy.world avatar

Welcome to being an animal!

There’s some crazy shit about our biology that affects how we think and act.

CollisionResistance ,
@CollisionResistance@lemmy.world avatar

I have a business idea

KrankyKong ,

I can’t decide if cultivation would be easy or hard.

DJKayDawg ,

Step 1: Open floorplan for office workers. Step 2: Harvest tears of said office workers. Step 3: Sell tears and profit.

GladiusB ,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t this corporate America already?

TheHotze ,

I mean gamer girl bathwater is a thing, and tears actually have a use. Just have famous people bottle their tears, then auction them to the highest bidder.

BreakDecks ,

I read this as “mean gamer girl bath water” and I was momentarily impressed that the market for gamer girl bath water had expanded to include different flavors.

Alsephina ,

What am I supposed to do with this information

wabafee ,
@wabafee@lemmy.world avatar

Sniff?

rosymind ,

Uh, bottle the tears of women and throw them (the tears, not the women) on your male enemies?

helpmyusernamewontfi ,

thanks for specifying, was about to make a horrible mistake

ThunderclapSasquatch ,

Throwing women would also work, blunt force trauma does not discriminate, it only mushes

variants ,

This reminded me of a song by nofx about sending hookers to war

youtu.be/g0T0z1GFMeI?si=xjQMRPvs4AfzH1wS

hondaguy97386 ,

They just want their… 72…

TangledHyphae ,

Perhaps in a trebuchet for maximum range?

TokenBoomer OP ,

Distract yourself from your problems like everyone else? /s

lennybird ,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

Be more like Eric Cartman.

spyd3r ,
@spyd3r@sh.itjust.works avatar

Go sniff their snatch instead, it has the opposite effect.

ObsidianZed ,

Start fucking dropping tears en masse in chem trails across the country, maybe that’ll help. They already think we do it anyway.

USSEthernet ,

Make women cry, bottle it, convert to crystalline form, snort.

Ataraxia ,

Lol this is so old

theherk ,

It was published three days ago.

Ensign_Crab ,

Mayflies use lemmy too.

Ulvain ,

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

paddirn ,

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

TurboDiesel ,
@TurboDiesel@lemmy.world avatar

Bloodhound Gang had it right; the lap dance really is better when the stripper’s crying!

SmackemWittadic , (edited )
@SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world avatar

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.”

CrowAirbrush ,

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?

bedrooms ,

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.

ExFed ,

What about this particular paper is difficult to replicate?

platypus_plumba ,

“Hey man, I fucked yo wiiiiifeee”. “Quickly! smell my finger, how do you feel?”

MargotRobbie ,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

Your first statement is completely wrong.

PLOS Biology, the journal this article is published in, is founded in 2003, so hardly a new journal, and has an impact factor of ~9, which means that it IS a prestigious journal.

bedrooms ,

I'm sure biology publications started 20 years ago. /s

The impact factor is rather high, I agree, but IF also a statistic that's often criticized for unreliability.

I'd take it back if someone in biology tells me their community submit their work there, but otherwise I'd be skeptical. It's also weird for a 20 year old journal to accept everything biology. Good new journals tend to specialize.

WoahWoah ,

So you are wrong and hand wave to make yourself feel better? You seem like a real winner.

bedrooms ,

I don't know. I think we'll talk after you learned reading comprehension.

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

It just gets me hard, not a good combo.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Which, as always, leads back to aggression.

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@kbin.social avatar

Next up, sipping on orphan tears.

Stache_ ,

Haha looked through the comments hoping to find this

theodewere ,
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

sniffing the tears of men just makes us more powerful

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