PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Androstenone, Menstrual Synchrony, Olfactory Bulb

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Alan Morgan

Document Summary

Can be divided in terms of their effects: two classes of pheromones, primers. Mcclintock effect (locker room effect: human females that have been around each other a lot, their menstrual cycles will synchronize, related to the substances in female sweat. Cause an immediate behavioral response: when an organism smells a releaser pheromone it causes an immediate behavioral change. Perfume industry anal pouches of the civet cat and musk deer: trying to find something that attracts people to each other by using substances that works in other mammals. A lot of energy put into substance that will attract women to men: maybe because they have better smell. Males produce more of it in underarm and pubic area, when first secreted it is odorless. Females more likely to choose chairs with a little androstenone on it. Research doesn t support that one substance can attract all women. Priming if you see the work doctor it makes you see the word nurse; biased.