Israeli researchers got a group of men to smell either women s emotional tears or saline - a mixture of salt and water - while they played a two-person game.
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Watching someone cry often evokes an emotional response but according to a new study published Thursday, human tears themselves contain a chemical signal that reduces brain activity linked to aggression.
<p>New research, publishing December 21<sup>st</sup><strong> </strong>in the open access journal in <em>PLOS Biology</em>, shows that tears from women contain chemicals that block aggression in men.<em> </em>The study led by Shani Agron at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, finds that sniffing tears leads to reduced brain activity related to aggression, which results is less aggressive behavior.</p>
After sniffing female tears, men, who had played computer games designed to provoke aggression, felt their revenge-seeking behaviour drop significantly