According to researchers, human tears contain a substance that suppresses aggression in others. They shared their scientific studies in the publication Plos Biology.
Their theory is that tears evolved to protect crying babies from aggression.
Tests showed that molecules extracted from women’s tears reduced male aggression by more than 40% and caused corresponding changes in the brain. Scientists believe that all human tears have this property.
Previous work from Sobel’s lab had shown that molecules in women’s tears lower men’s testosterone levels, but it was unclear whether this affected behavior.
In Sobel’s laboratory, Dr. For their latest work, Shani Agron and others collected tears from women’s faces as they watched sad movies.
The experiments involved 31 men breathing saline or women’s tears. The men then took part in a computerized game used in psychology to encourage aggressive behavior by unfairly deducting players’ scores.
When men inhaled women’s tears instead of saline, aggressive behavior in the form of retaliation was 43.7% lower.
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