[Novalug] How to Encourage Women in Linux

[David A. Cafaro]

Actually I believe it's a different study:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/amygdala_research/

Which was more recent vs the 1991 Hypothalamus study.

Cheers,
David

On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Nino Pereira  
> <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> A related question: what about sexual preference? A recent article
>> in the paper reported that brains of heterosexual men light up
>> in the same places as homosexual females, and vice versa.
>
> That study's a few years old, and it refers specifically to sex
> hormones.  They tested using sweat from members of each sex to see who
> would respond in the anterior hypothalmus (controls sexual desire) to
> each one.  Unsurprisingly, lesbians & straight men and gays & straight
> women matched up.  It was a step toward proving the existence of
> pheromones in humans, something we'd thought was only for lesser
> mammals.  Psychology Today had an article on scent & pheromones in
> humans a few months back.
>
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