The Study Of Pheromones Essay Research Paper — страница 3

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on adult vs. Prepubertal male mice. A major urinary protein MUP was found, and was suggested to be a pheromone that binds proteins in male urine. This protein is said to repel adult males yet, attracts females. However, in prepubertal males the protein attracts males and repels females. This is because MUP binds molecules with pheromonal activity, which acts as a male signal of attraction (American Psychological Association Abstract. Chemical Senses. 1998). I think that the smell of someone s perfume can cause one remember where, and what they were doing when they smelled the fragrance. What is in the fragrance is nothing compared to the response gotten from the wonderful smell of attraction. Most perfumes and colognes are chocked full of pheromones, which is why they work so

well. A study was done three years ago by a group of scientist who worked for a company that manufactured perfumes. The test was done using patients in a dentist office. The patients were exposed to two dentist chairs sprayed with both male and female pheromones. The patients were told to go in one at a time, male then female and have a seat. Upon entering the room the male tended to be drawn to the chair sprayed with female pheromone, and the females tended to be more drawn to the chair sprayed with male pheromone. According to Diane Ackerman it may not be important what particular odor men are broadcasting, it s the signal of availability, the perception of self-confidence (A Natural History of The Senses). In the book A Natural History of the Senses Akerman describes what one

researcher called Pheromones 5 visualmone while describing the deep blue eyes of a Caucasian baby, saying that maybe blue eyes were attractive to me at that time because it is attractive in the culture we live in. However in some African cultures blue eyes are considered unattractive. This leads me to think that attraction is by sight and not by scent. It seems as though people use their perception of what is or what is not attractive to determine what will attract someone else. Moreover, I think that the combination of appearance, smell, and personality of a man or woman is the true attraction principal and not the pheromone alone. I believe that pheromones can trigger responses in humans but I do not think that it (pheromones) is the sole catalysts for attraction. There are

many fragrances on the store shelves made for men and women but none have been identified as containing specific male or female pheromones (A Natural History of the Senses). I suspect that when the experiment was done on the dental patients, where the dentist chairs were sprayed with pheromones, that these were the pheromones of an animal. This is because human pheromones have not been pinpointed yet, so I believe that the male animal pheromone attracted the female subjects, and the female animal pheromones attracted the male subjects to the respective chairs.