Revisiting the revisit: added evidence for a social chemosignal in human emotional tears.
Cogn Emot
; 31(1): 151-157, 2017 01.
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ABSTRACT
In a study by Gelstein et al., we found that human emotional tears act as a social chemosignal. In the first of three different experiments in that study we observed that sniffing women's emotional tears reduced the sexual attractiveness attributed by men to pictures of women's faces. In a study partly titled "Chemosignaling effects of human tears revisited", Gracanin et al. claim failed replication of this effect in a series of experiments, one they described as "exactly the same procedure" as Gelstein. Given that Gracanin et al. refused our extended offer to jointly replicate the experiment at our expense, we can merely comment on their effort. We find that Gracanin, who are not a chemosignaling laboratory, used methodology that falls short of standards typically applied in chemosignaling research. Thus, their experiments were profoundly different from Gelstein. Finally, we found that in reanalysing their raw data we could in fact replicate the effect from Gelstein. Thus, we conclude that the failed replication in Gracanin is neither a replication nor failed.
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Assunto principal:
Lágrimas
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Emoções
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Cogn Emot
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Israel