A fascinating study has found that sniffing female tears significantly reduced male aggression and decreased activity in aggression-related brain networks. It’s suggested that the effect, which is caused by chemical signals in tears and is also seen in rodents, serves a protective function.
Like, it would be one thing if they were doing a more general test on tears of a variety of people and their impact on others and then found this potential impact that led them to do a more specific study resulting in this. But to zero in specifically on adult woman tears without any known prior reason for it feels…odd.