PSY395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hyperaemia, Naked Mole-Rat, Bloating
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Our insincts prime us to choose mate that is dif to our immune system so children has best chance of ighing illness. Women were tested for 6 genes that compose their immune system. If all six of your genes matches there"s, their smell would be unappealing to you b/c children would be less likely. If only one or two match, will inds smell atracive, children would be naturally healthy. The less the similarity in genes, the more adapive. The smellier it is, the more similar the woman"s genes are to the other woman. If more geneically similar, tend to not be atracted to them and conveyed through smell. Emerged in early 90s, lots of replicaion on this on both gender and have preferences for pheromones. If diferent hormones acivate diferent areas in brain. And: a pheromone like compound that males pro"d.
