Pheromones 3 The Study of Pheromones The Scent of Attraction The chemical Pheromone is an odorous chemical released by an animal that affects the behaviors of the same species. The scent is often recognizable by the opposite sex or a child and its parent. James W. Kalat author of Biological Psychology states that most of the effects of pheromones depends on the activity of the vomeronasal organ. Kalat reports that the vomeronasal organ is made up …showed first 75 words of 1064 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1064 total…and gender. Chemical Senses 1998 (Fed). Vol. 23 (1), 67-70. Pheromone 2 Abstract During a search of psychological abstracts it was found that pheromones are different, and that they have a different affect on different people. The textbook Biological Psychology was used as a reference as well as Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of The Senses. All of the sources provided the necessary information about how pheromones relate to sexual arousal, mate selection, and territorial identification, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**