Hormones & Pheromones effect on our behavior.
Hormones & Pheromone's effect on our behavior
By Arie D.
What are Hormones & Pheromones?
Hormones
& Pheromones
Hormones: Hormones are chemicals your body produces that change parts of your body or behavior. Some examples of Hormones changing you body or behavior are...
- Sleep
- Metabolisim
- Fertility & Sex Drive
Pheromones: Pheromones are chemicles you body secretes to signal emotions or distress. Some examples of this are...
- Sexual attraction
- Mate selection
- Danger signaling
But primates (like humans) lack the organ to detect pheromones because we lack a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO).
Hormones that alter human bahavior.
Though many hormones are present in the human body only some alter you behavior such as, oxytocin, prolactin, and leptin. these chemicals specificly alter these behaviors...
-oxytocin reduces stress by causing warm, fuzzy feelings. This is a therapeutic drug given to women during labor and delivery.
-prolacin enduces anxiety and depressive-like behaviors.
-leptin causes you to be happier.
Specific Hormones
How phermonones affect your behavior
Pheromones effect your behavior by secreting certain chemicals through you sweat, saliva, etc, to signal diffrent moods, or situations (mainly in animals). But Primates (including humans) lack the functioning organ to detect many pheromones called a vomeronasal organ (VNO). A pheromone we can kind of detect is androstadienone and it can have an effect on peoples behavior by...
- androstadienone is a testosterone based compound that is mainly found in men's axillary sweat (sweat after physical activitys)
Though pheromones are present in humans, we still dont know alot about them as humans lack the neccacary components to effectivly decypher the signals of pheromones.
Specific Phermones
Relevant studies on specific Hormones / Pheromones
The Hormone I chose to write about is Dopamine.
The Pheromone I chose was the pheromone of fear (there isnt a specific name because of how complex the pheromone is)
Relevant studies
How Dopamine Affects Your Behavior.
Dopamine
Dopamine is a brain chemical that influences your actions and feelings. It's the reason that your able to enjoy the things that you do, it also influences your motivational drive, your memory, and heavily influences your physical actions. However the cons of dopamine is that it could possibly lead to addictions or feelings of sadness. Overall, dopamine is essentially your brain's happy and motivational juice however it can also be seen as a drug/addiction.