Understanding Which Chemicals Promote Aggressive Behavior

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Now I know why I don't like that guy down the street. I can just blame it on the flies.

mfellion of CA 11:59AM January 16, 2010

It is public knowledge that higher aggression is linked to male behavior but a recent study could not find an association between testosterone injections and increased aggressiveness. Pherormones might be the missing link. Scientist, for good reasons, are so used to testing only one substance they lose the opportunity of studying the interaction of two or more substances.By the way, I hope these researches can help modify the behavior of people like "you are all retarded of NY" who still hasn't figured out you can give your opinion without becoming overly aggressive towards others.

Lucila of NY 4:16AM January 14, 2010

So, why would we communicate with all of our other senses and not with our sense of smell? "She could smell the testerone", "the smell of fear and similar sayings all express that we can actually communicate via our olfactory and vomeronasal organ. The research being done at institutions on various pheromones, alphaeros, and even some hormones like oxytocin are just confirming what our "sixth sense" knows about sense. Bono has it right - "what you don't know you can feel somehow."

Chuck of DE 11:50PM January 13, 2010

If this area of study can continue, feasibly a treatment for overly agressive behavior in humans could be found. Counseling and medication to ease aggressive behavior in humans is not the only answer for treatment of agressivemess. Give these guys a chance. They may be able to come up with a non invasive surgical procedure to correct some of human agression problems. While I realize all aggression is not bad. It is when it is used to rape and beat little children, senior citizens; any human or animalLIlal who is treated agressively when they are not hurting anyone.

Lila McDowell of MO 8:29AM January 13, 2010

All great knowledge starts with baby steps. Hearing people complain about things like this just highlights the enormous ignorance of the average news reader/poster.
"I don't know" is actually a great answer. It means the person is being honest and hopefully plans to research and learn more. Only politicians know
everything.
You guys are dumb as sh&t.

you are all retarded of NY 9:05AM January 03, 2010

These finding are as useful as wikipedia. Horses@%t! They don't clue how things work and are just saying whatever to justify more research (taxpayer) money.

Jeff of WI 6:06AM January 01, 2010

to hear scientists say "We have no idea. We simply don't know." Seriously.
That's what young students should be told about so many things.

Muser of NM 6:27PM December 31, 2009

Are the researchers paying Gronieg for the rights to the idea?

roscoe of MI 5:21AM December 31, 2009

I've just read about pheromones involved in the mating and selection process, but the aggression factor makes a lot of sense (and sense). There are some interesting videos by Dr Peter T. Pugliese where he discusses pheromones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Z3cUWZMS0

Charles of PA 8:09PM December 22, 2009