Women’s tears reduce male potency

When we cry, it cause to partner a far greater impact than simply expressing certain emotions. According to new research, tears send a specific chemical signal, which influences the behavior of other people.

A new study published in the journal Science, may help answer the question puzzled more than one generation of scientists – why people, in contrast to other species, crying, feeling a strong emotion?

Having conducted a series of experiments, the researchers found that men who inhaled women’s tears, precipitated by emotional stress, experienced less sexual arousal than inhalation of a neutral salt solution applied on the cheeks of participating test.

According to carried out the research of Dr. Noam Sobel, a professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, such a reaction in men in women’s tears caused by a combination of factors – the level of testosterone, the reaction of the skin on the lacrimal fluid, as well as visual images.

“Basically what we found, it is chemically conditioned signal indicating” no “or” at least not right now, “- said Dr. Sobel.

Scientists are also involved in research on the impact of male and tears. Dr. Sobel says that in this case may reduce aggression from other males. But until the problem is that men find volunteers that can
squeeze out a tear emotional, very difficult.

Robert R. Provine, a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who has studied the effect of tears, said that the discovery is important because the “emotional tears are an essential factor in the evolutionary development of man as a social species, and can pass on information about human pheromones.

While it remains unclear – in what way this is perceived by a chemical signal – through the olfactory function or in some other way.

Some experts believe that tears were generally designed to reduce male aggression against women, debilitated as a result of emotional stress. There is an assumption that the effect of women’s tears is associated with the menstrual cycle.

“There are several lines of evidence that women are more likely to cry during menstruation, but from a biological point of view, this is not the most effective time for sex, so that the reduction of sexual stimulation of your partner during this time is very convenient,” – says Dr. Sobel.