trust spray

[Kire]

What the hell? I heard an ad for this on the radio. Apparently, there's a pheremone that makes people trust you. Is there such a thing or is this pseudo-science snake oil?

http://www.amazon.com/Vero-Labs-A-12...9303057&sr=8-7

[Armored]

Re: trust spray

Sounds like someones been chugging the gullibility juice.

[Kire]

Re: trust spray

No, but where can I buy some?

Seriously though, I can't believe some of the crap people are allowed to advertise on the radio. They even advertise those colon cleanser diets that really do nothing.

[Red Dragon]

Re: trust spray

It's the radio.

Who friggin listens to the radio anymore

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: trust spray

trust spray, what a concept.

i think someone is taking marketing advice from scientology.

[jacquel]

Re: trust spray

There are chemical agents that influence prosocial behavior like bonding and trust but they are hormones, oxytocin being the most well known/researched. The jury is rather out on how much human communication relies on pheromones if at all, so the idea of anyone isolating a specific behavioral agent among those is bull. Cosmetic companies love the idea of pheremones though for obvious reasons.

[Jamos]

Re: trust spray

What can I say? People are nuts.

[H2SO4]

Re: trust spray

They have sprays like this for everything. I think it's bogus, humans are too complex to be controlled by a scent.

[Duel]

Re: trust spray

What's next? Deodorant spray that supposedly makes women attracted to you?

Oh...

[jacquel]

Re: trust spray

humans are too complex to be controlled by a scent.

Only because our sense of smell hasn't played nearly as large a role in our evolution as our eyes have- you're controlld by a lot of cues that you don't notice. Everything you think and feel are electro-chemical reactions propogated by external stimuli and top-down processing in your fatty gooey brain- were only complex because we have quite a few processes for each, but break down each one and its the same building blocks that "less developed" brains have.

(Sorry. Vindictive psych student.)

[Armored]

Re: trust spray

Amen.

[H2SO4]

Re: trust spray

What's next? Deodorant spray that supposedly makes women attracted to you?

Oh...

It's been done already.

[peachy]

Re: trust spray

if someone sprayed **** in my face i dont think i would trust them.

[Chad]

Re: trust spray

It's been done already.

SOMEONE got the joke.

[/SARCASM]

[Red Dragon]

Re: trust spray

It's been done already.

That's what the "oh..." was for.