On 25 May 2009 at 9:41, Mike Palij wrote: > According to some people, marriage > changes everything. :-)
No, no, you've got it backwards. It's love that changes everything, or in current terminology, it's dissimilar major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes that does it. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUgMNS18bGA&feature=related > > A prospective experimental study should be done. And if scents > or pheromes are the basis for the "attraction", then people should > base "desirability as a mate" judgments solely on appropriately > presented scent samples that are either genetically similar or different > to the participant. Actually, I believe a currently popular view is that it's not olfactory but osculatory. We may determine dissimilarity in MHC genes by sampling their products while kissing. This may explain why Susan Boyle never married. Or, as a wise psychologist once said, "It's in his kiss" [pronounced "kees"] http://vodpod.com/watch/1350213-cher-the-shoop-shoop-song And see also: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/kissingscience/ Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
