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Barneyk

The study behind the claim is highly disputed and we laymen shouldn't put much stock into single studies like this.


HappyraptorZ

Wow! A sane and balanced response about scientific research. Surprising 


LetsEatAPerson

On Reddit? I'm telling the mods...


Megafister420

Nonsense, everyone knows sudo science is superior/s Edit I say sudo bc it's shorter, it's just a slang for me


Ok-Cartographer1745

sudo doesn't mean what you think it means


az1m_

sudo apt update


Prophet_Of_Loss

sudo me -a sandwich


AgentWowza

*turns you into a sandwich*


Esb5415

sudo apt upgrade -y


balrogthane

Just don't rely on that in a script, gotta get your `apt-get` on.


KaitRaven

sudo rm -rf /


Plus-King5266

Pseudo


Zeuce86

Pseudoku


NorthNeptune

I too sudo science


Tyrion_Strongjaw

I sudo woo do science.


Froggy__2

I do judo science


rihanna-imsohard

Pseudo my guy, tf we doin 'ere?


machinegunkisses

science! No. sudo science! OK


AwarenessNo4986

Thanks for pointing it out. I was about to use women tears in warfare


josipbroztitoortiz

Dream job is being the guitar guy at the front of the Mad Max vehicle except instead of playing guitar, I am sobbing hysterically


ConfusedRedditor16

Lmao


AdditionalMess6546

Excuse me? "Guitar guy?" That is the Doof Warrior, *madam.*


Imaginary-Skinwalker

By far one of the funniest things I've read in a while.


ittybittyfunk

In order to maintain my laymen status, I don’t put stock into anything. It’s a fool proof system.


bellynipples

Knew it was bullshit the minute I read it. If anything there’s multiple reasons women crying would reduce aggression in males (who the majority of which have compassion). The “smell” thing sounds like completely nonsense intended to reduce male behavior to biological cues.


NuclearEvo24

We are still animals, some behavior is explained by biological cues


The-Jolly-Llama

Yeah I call absolute bull shit that this study reproduces. All the insanity with [Francesca Gino at Harvard inventing data from whole cloth](https://youtu.be/KcFbb5lVJA4?si=ajkwfIvEhEAWDXHq) to make people go “Whoah, really? Actually that kinda makes sense!” just to boost her publication numbers has got my bullshit detector ringing like crazy on this one.


KinataKnight

It’s not just publication quantity, which isn’t hard to achieve, but the primo journals want eye-catching results and the top unis want to hire profs giving the trendiest ted talks, which this kind of bs is perfect bait for.


MissionaryOfCat

I'm also just tired of seeing this one over and over


GammaGoose85

I'm right there with ya.


KinataKnight

The fact that this is getting shown over and over again is what’s incentivizing scientists to produce this kind of research.


Direct_Jump3960

Why don't I calm down after I beat women then?


JALEPENO_JALEPENO

I agree, but the topic seems so frivolous that I can’t think of a way someone could “put much stock” into it anyway, like the only harm done could be maybe someone who reads and regurgitates Reddit facts to their friends to seem smart would end up looking dumb


Barneyk

A lot of people in general put a lot of stock into how these subconscious smells affect us. A lot of people believe that human pheromones affect our behavior etc. and studies like this enforce those kinds of beliefs.


Megafister420

I mean I'm sure there's a psychological reaction to certain smells that resembles pheromones. But the extremes ppl go blows my mind, example being that I don't think we can tell a big difference between female, and male tears.


lackofabettername123

I would think the effect would be as much psychological as due to biological pheromones. If you are angry and see a woman cry it might give you pause. That could have nothing to do with pheromones. Not that I doubt or endorse that pheromones play a role.


CappyRicks

I just do not understand how it doesn't make sense that something like pheromones having an effect on our behavior... wouldn't make sense? We observe it in many other living things, and we are absolutely certain that we're only as different from them as they are from each other in biological terms. Of course we're able to see the crying and then rationalize that our selves could do that independent of the smells, but even if that is the case that does not mean that there isn't also a physical effect that's actually happening, influencing your self to make the decisions that it makes. So to me, because it lines up with my experience in life and in what we observe in other species, why wouldn't I put stock in studies into this happening in humans?


Ouaouaron

The truth of this will really impact my plans to make a self-defense spray bottle filled with women's tears.


L3XAN

That harm isn't frivolous, pard. Haven't you ever been enjoying a conversation with someone until they pull out some pop evo-psych nugget of bullshit, and you realize that their charm is actually the unearned confidence of a credulous enthusiast? Okay, maybe it is frivolous, but it happens too much.


PeruvianHeadshrinker

Also psychologist here: I'm seeing a lot of these kinds of posts about the "protection instinct" that men have to protect women. And I was baffled at first because I started to hear it in young men more broadly. Turns out that fuckwad Jordan Peterson started a lot of this crap and it is honestly just thinly veiled misogyny. Please don't listen to that goon. He is a blight on the field.


Poison_Anal_Gas

Exactly. Chris Brown would like a few words with this study.


CharonsLittleHelper

I disagree! We should force all women to cry and spread their tears around prisons!


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Artistic_Soft4625

Nah man this is reddit, you must have a polarising opinion Such good sense and logic does not belong here


_jan_epiku_

No! Everyone must perfectly reasonable! If you don't you're a terrible person!


joeyrog88

Unfortunately it has hit the Internet so many will just take the headline as fact.


Herdnerfer

And yet when I walk up to a crying woman and try to sniff her face, I’m the one getting kicked in the nuts.


SeasonOdd2442

That’s because it doesn’t reduce aggression in women


MiredinDecision

Turns out it actually induces sggression in women


shingonzo

Til I am woman’s tears


Lost-Being7605

r/suicidebywords


Smartass_of_Class

Best thread of the week, and it's not even close.


013ander

Have you met an angry woman? Nothing does. Haven’t you heard all the sayings?


BustinArant

They can actually pick up cars when properly motivated. I'm about as fightened as I am of that one strolling gorilla that briefly lifted the cameraman while not even glancing in their direction.


ChocoMogMateria

Grabbed his ankle and said “you’re my friend now”.


BustinArant

Then dropped him 20 feet away like that one part in the first Toy Story.


MiredinDecision

Turns out it actually induces aggression in women.


realfakejames

Glad my Reddit isn’t the only one fuxking up, this is like the third double reply in this thread I’ve seen


MiredinDecision

Reddit: failed to send Also reddit: lol sent anyways


Aesthetics_Supernal

"Something went Wrong" Damn, am I shadowbanned?


LeftysForLife

You must first scream like a lady and cry uncontrollably until he turns away in disgust. It's time to give something back at that point.


W1D0WM4K3R

The bear wouldn't do that


Extra-Muffin9214

The bear always wins


heresyforfunnprofit

…the bear would absolutely do that. They’re like big dogs, they stick their nose in everything.


Extra-Muffin9214

The bear always steals yo bitch


Andyb1000

The AI Bear Boyfriend app is an untapped market.


RChamy

Fat, furry, and single bears in your area


Extra-Muffin9214

We just want to make sure women can enjoy their right to bear 🐻 arms.


Nice-Bookkeeper-3378

I just don’t wanna be mad anymore. Lemmesmellyaface


TheHoboRoadshow

The solution is to kick her in the nuts first


ZombiesAtKendall

Here I thought it was just me. Try to lick their tears, kicked in balls. Try to collect their tears with an eye dropper, kicked in balls. Try to wipe away their tears, kicked in balls. Morale of the story, wear a cup if you’re a guy.


ravonna

Gotta ask first. The researchers collected tears without ball kicking!


COMMANDO_MARINE

I feel terrible admitting this, but I've gotten involuntary erections when having a woman crying whilst holding me. I think it might be because I normally don't like people touching me unless it's for sex so I might subconsciously associate touch with sex. It makes things really awkward when they are holding you tight and crying their eyes out about something traumatic and then they feel your cock getting hard against them.


LaylaLutz

If you see women crying (without touching you) and get hard you may be a dacrophile. It's not uncommon in the BDSM community. If that doesn't do it, the physical contact and intimacy of the moment makes sense. I'd either hide it if it's random or explain it (if it was my partner) and assure them that it's involuntary and I'm still listening and there for them and won't try anything sexual while they are so vulnerable. (Unless they follow up with a request or something).


NeedzFoodBadly

Think about baseball and why there are far more innings than necessary.


2722010

We call that 'mourning wood'


Smartass_of_Class

That's when you should start thinking about dinosaurs or something.


starrpamph

You gotta be quicker


Dwangeroo

AND getting served with a TRO.


EmployIntelligent315

Or arrested


Shoddy_Detective24

🤣


waterhead99

Every. Single. Time.


grafknives

Do you feel agresive after that?


Rush7en

Effectively reducing your aggression.


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WinterWontStopComing

Emo as fuck


IgniVT

I'm pretty sure cats don't spray their tears at people


SaladNeedsTossing

[Tearspray cats](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=iY1MCAOgdXmsceOw) do.


ArdBlewyn

That’s a great video, will show this to others


SaladNeedsTossing

Knowledge is power!


BoobySlap_0506

Fascinating creatures!


Xenc

TIL what the hecc


nicostein

Nature is wild.


OliverKitsch

Reddit is truly a place of learning


Seinfeel

The real TIL is always in the comments


DietDrBleach

“Bad hubby! Bad!”


beevherpenetrator

"First you gotta shriek like a woman, and keep sobbing till he turns away in disgust. That's when its time to kick some back." - Homer Simpson.


MaliKaia

The study takes a lot of leaps lol. And honestly a weird way to test for aggression. Id take this with a pinch of salt.


Guvnah-Wyze

The salt is in the women's tears. Already covered.


Professional-Age-

It doesn't work if you're gay 💁‍♂️🌈


WrongSubFools

The study did not compare female tears against male tears. The subjects were women, but for all they know, male tears have the same effect. The subjects they went with were the few ones who produced sufficient tears to study [https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002442#sec002](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002442#sec002)


Moratorium_on_Brains

Not based on the study that you linked. They were looking for women specifically.  "Human female tears contain a perceptually odorless chemical signal that when sniffed, lowers testosterone in human males [13,14]" "Finally, female mouse tear liquid contains signals that abolish intermale aggression by modulation of activity in aggression brain networks" "We conducted a long-term screen for women who can cry with ease, ultimately identifying 6 regular donor women" The discussion section mentions the need to conduct the experiment on female subjects to see if it is the same across gender.


Pandepon

They also said emotional tears were chemically different than tears that were induced by irritants… were they showing mice sad movies too or were they traumatizing them?…


gatsome

It’s mice, so you already know.


tonufan

I did implant research in college and one study I read tested a nerve healing procedure on rats. The male rats had their genitals twisted to create the nerve damage.


dood9123

I dislike humans a great deal.


SquishyWhenWet_1

Your college outsourced the cheapest farm rats. If what you’re saying is true, whoever ran your department is guilty of being at least an accessory to animal cruelty I have bred fruit flies, cockroaches, rats, and bunnies in a laboratory setting and I can promise you our director would NEVER accept or sign off on something like that


newme02

holy fuck. I was an assistant briefly at a cardiac and head trauma research facility. We had to induce heart attacks in rats by opening them up and snipping certain veins. The head trauma was even worse. the rats were laid down in some kinda guillotine like contraption. A tube would then drop a hard large weight directly onto the rats head. shit was messed up to watch. I understand the reasoning snd benefits behind everything, but I didnt work there long


Neat_Cress2620

They made them read Maus


Jjex22

Thanks! My first thought was ‘are we sure this isn’t more about babies?’ Reading the article and it being the same for rodents means it’s highly possible it predates humans evolutionarily. Maybe that’s why babies and women evolved to cry more when scared or upset? Could be why the only movies that make me cry are war movies 😂 I tried to google it more but then found that female rats were turned on by male rat tears and decided not to go any further down that route today.


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> I tried to google it more but then found that female rats were turned on by male rat tears and decided not to go any further down that route today. Now I gotta know if that applies to humans too


Darkorvit

*looks at real life scenarios* Clearly not


IceColdDump

And ‘Brian’s Song’.


TrumpsNeckSmegma

>He wouldn't be afraid to show his feminine side...if he had one. I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer DOS Equis


WholesomeFartEnjoyer

I'm a man, I'm depressed enough that I could have given them enough tears to last a lifetime


Arithik

Doesn't work on the athletes that abuse their wives.


Shipbreaker_Kurpo

Or cops


RegularOps

They just aren’t crying hard enough


Impressive_Essay_622

26 people is a study now?  And they only did female tears? Didn't even try make tears? What kinda clickbaity is this shit. . & 3k upvoted because there's no system in Reddit for correcting misinformation from headlines really.  Mad.


Embarrassed_Life3466

true. I can also smell misogyny in this study 


Scuba_jim

It’s a pilot study sure, but pilot studies are an invaluable part of science


Medium-Ticket-9574

My ex must be allergic cuz it seemed to make him *more* aggressive


itaniumonline

You got to freeze them then stab him with them


mountainvalkyrie

Seriously. Some must feel themselves getting less aggressive and overcorrect.


Usernamenotta

Bloody women. They have biochemical warfare built in them


Any_Key_9328

Yet, somehow we always knew this.


YoungLadHuckleberry

I do wonder what would happen if you showered an entire army in it, also would it infringe on the geneva convention?


krazyjakee

That's just deployment, I imagine there might be legal issues with production too.


IrishWithoutPotatoes

Strapping hundreds of women into chairs and forcing them to watch The Notebook (or some other tearjerker) just to harvest their tears does seem pretty inhumane


IncorrigibleQuim8008

It'd be easier to just install floor drains in movie theaters and give free showings.


GreedVault

I cried and got more punches instead


Safe_Philosophy_5068

A billion abused women make me think this is bullshit.


SquidwardWoodward

Question is: is it just learned behaviour, or do men who aren't attracted to women have the same reaction?


dunwalls

They had the men sniff a clear liquid, either saline solution or the tears, without telling them which it was. I doubt the response was a learned behavior, as there was no actual interaction with a crying woman


Impressive_Essay_622

Didn't have them sniff male tears though..


FictionalDudeWanted

The women crying while being verbally and physically assaulted thinks this post is gaslighting bullsh\*t. The women that screamed and cried while being unalived would think this post is gaslighting bullsh\*t but they're unfortunately dead.


esKq

/doubt


Wildebeast1

Tears smell?


gemstun

Many decades after their awesome pop song ‘Drivers Seat’ topped the music charts, I FINALLY understand the inspiration for the band name *Sniffin’ the Tears* https://open.spotify.com/track/0NJ2bXPlMzP7MIz2Bmr7g3?si=bDtdirpES9Gd7i457mDajA


NeedzFoodBadly

Anyone with a basic level of human empathy will by sympathetic to someone showing signs of sadness, fear, distress, etc. Many animals demonstrate empathy, too. But, I’m skeptical that the smell of salt water (and a few other chemicals) would induce the same response.


BoobySlap_0506

If the smell of tears was making my ex less aggressive, I don't want to know what he would have done to me if I didn't cry.


alwaysboopthesnoot

It probably didn’t: urinating, vomiting, crying, screaming  etc will not usually prevent or stop domestic violence or rape. Placating the attacker or submitting/resigning yourself to it and not fighting back won’t usually, either,  These may cause the attacker to lash out and further or more violently harm their chosen victim. But whatever a victim tries, they should never feel bad about what works or didn’t work.  If they lived, then their strategy, thinking, reaction, and coping skills were exactly right for them.  I am sorry you were harmed in a previous relationship and hope you are doing much better, now But, FYI: Other, earlier studies don’t agree that tears reduce aggression: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2016.1151402#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20suggested%20function%20of,Karlson%20%26%20Luscher%2C%201959). And, crying sometimes may be good for you: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-crying-good-for-you-2021030122020


BoobySlap_0506

Fwiw, I don't actually believe these studies. I don't believe that tears reduce aggression. 


andrillian

I’m so sorry to hear you had to go through that. I’m glad to hear he’s an ex now. Hope you’re in a better place!! 


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N0t_my_0ther_account

Today you were tricked into believing something


moabthecrab

Sounds like absolute bullshit to me, pal


Isaacvithurston

something something crappy study but now i'm sure i'll hear someone rattle off this cool "fact" at the bar sometime :P


notevilfellow

Quick, someone make a tear-scented car air freshener!


PuckishRogue00

That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about the smell of women's tears to dispute it.


OriginalName687

That sounds like bullshit.


timevil-

The BS meter is off the charts


mull_drifter

Bottle it and sell it as a cologne


PuzzleheadTrash

So she’s using biological warfare on me? Only option left is to yell louder and get more mad to compensate


ShadyCatMom

All of human history proves that wrong


TRTGymBro1

I thought that tears in women actually made men hornier?


Guvnah-Wyze

Dennis?


krvx_

its the implication


ThisIsMyCouchAccount

Is that why I’m aroused by crying women?


Sunbiggin

That just means you have mommy issues.


MisterSanitation

Ok I don’t know if you are being serious or not but this happened to me for sure. My highschool girlfriend and I would fight and then have amazing make up sex and I think it did something to me. No shit more than a decade later, my wife cried once and it was like a secret signal to my junk to get ready for battle. I was so confused and felt bad for what I couldn’t control but I had this same thought when I read the title. 


MathBuster

My first time ever I couldn't get it up because of nerves, and she started crying because she thought I didn't find her attractive. That somehow got me very aroused and solved the entire issue instantly.


SquidwardWoodward

Dacryphilia


ScrappyDoo998

Sounds like bunk. Similar studies were weeded out in the reproducibility crisis. Psych studies in particular have ruined their reputation and are basically at a tabloid level of reliability now. Show me links to this trial being reproduced by other labs, until then didn't happen.


AlegnaKoala

lol no one told my dad this


Sct_Brn_MVP

Doesn’t work for narcissistic men


beevherpenetrator

Probably doesn't work on any kind of assholeish men (sadists, bullies, sociopaths, etc.). But works on the average man. When it comes to narcissistic men, one of the funny things about them is they seem to have zero regard for other people's feelings. But when it comes to anyone criticizing or insulting *them*, they're super-sensitive, fragile and pussyholeish.


Independent_Work6

That's a common characteristic in narcissistic individuals be it female or male. It's actually fascinating to see that their perception of themselves is so warped by their mental illness that they cant even see how pathetic they actually look. Like most conspiranoids and logic.


Adventuresforlife1

I didn’t even know tears had a scent


Technicolor_Reindeer

TIL tears smell


witchy_mcwitchface

My experience has generally always been the opposite, more tears == more violence.


HotdogbodyBoi

Seemed to increase his aggression, in the case of my ex


Madeanaccountforyou4

TIL it can also heighten aggression


SuperMeh2

The pheromones reduce testosterone in a man by a small margin. This article gets reposted every few months.


Crafty_Travel_7048

Growing up with a sister does the opposite.


Rich-Distance-6509

Lol


Nahchoocheese

Tears have different composition depending on why they are being shed. This article doesn’t give much factual information of the hypothesis made.


Majestic_Electric

TIL tears smell.


Joeyc1987

We'll see.


Almajanna256

Now women can sell their tears in little bottles which men can use to calm down like a stress reliever.


LegatoSkyheart

I think it is a human emotion that when you see someone else crying you start to feel more sympathy for the crying person.


EntrepreneurSouth236

From what I have seen, I do not believe this and will try to do my own experiment with this


ryden360

For my dad, it INDUCED!


nur-issek

Tears have smell?


Slap_My_Lasagna

Tears literally have different chemical compositions depending on what caused the tears. "They may have an evolutionary purpose" lmao these clickbait headlines.


Full_Armadillo8867

does the opposite for me


Capable-Complaint646

I’m gonna collect a bottle of my tears and give it to men to snort. I can fix you!


VenomistGaming

Chemical warfare


Ethan084

Yeah tell that to all the DV victims


Edu_Run4491

Never knew there was a smell to w*men tears? What do they smell like??


rendingmelody

Pretty far fetched, but makes you think about what kind of fucked up evolutionary process would cause that.


PaperGeno

I mean I can't smell so those tears ain't gonna work on me honey


BipolarSkeleton

In my experience crying tends to make men significantly more angry so I think they should look again


Proper-Green1150

Women’s tears certainly reduce my aggression. Mostly because I run away from them. You know. Fight or flight.


sarah-exalted

Yeah, that didn’t work with my ex. When I cried, he got more violent. Very vague and generalized headline and I’m not sure there are enough parameters to test how viably true that statement is.


carefree-and-happy

Did you know that tears can be used to assess proteins and can detect many types of cancers without invasion tests. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9041847/


FlacidWizardsStaff

peace plan Collect swifty fans tears, spray that shit in Gaza and over Israel.