Pheromones

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Concepts

A pheromone is a chemical substance produced and released into the environment by an animal affecting the behavior or physiology of others of its species. (Often in sweat)

Two potential human pheromones are Androstadienone (AND) – found in male semen and sweat – and Estratetraenol (EST), which is found in female urine.

Issues

It is not clear that this is also true in humans. People without a sense of smell know how to attract

Key study

McClintock (1971) Maturation synchronization
Mishor et al. (2021) Hexadecanal as a Putative Human Pheromone