# Scientific evidence that androstadienone should make a comeback!

**URL:** <https://pheromonetalk.com/t/scientific-evidence-that-androstadienone-should-make-a-comeback/43270>\
**Category:** Studies & Abstracts\
**Created:** [November 12, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/scientific-evidence-that-androstadienone-should-make-a-comeback/43270 "2010-11-12T20:10:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![AplAy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/aplay/32/1054_2.png) [@AplAy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/AplAy)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/scientific-evidence-that-androstadienone-should-make-a-comeback/43270/1 "2010-11-12T20:10:11Z")

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**ABSTRACT**  
\*“Considerable research effort has focused on whether specific compounds found within human body odor  
influence the behavior or physiology of other individuals. The most intensively studied is 4,16-androstadien-  
3-one, a chemical which is known to modulate mood and have activational effects in the sympathetic  
nervous system in a context-dependent manner, but whose action in mate-choice contexts remains largely  
untested. Here we present evidence that this androgen steroid may modulate women’s judgments of men’s  
attractiveness in an ecologically valid context. We tested the effects of androstadienone at a speed-dating  
event in which men and women interacted in a series of brief dyadic encounters. Men were rated more  
attractive when assessed by women who had been exposed to androstadienone, an effect that was seen in  
two out of three studies. The results suggest that androstadienone can influence women’s attraction to men,  
and also that research into the modulatory effects of androstadienone should be made within ecologically  
valid contexts.” \*(The abstract from the scientific paper by Saxton, Lyndon, Little & Roberts, 2008, p.597).

**PLAIN ENGLISH**  
When women were exposed to androstadienone in certain events where  
men were involved, they rated these men as more attractive compared to  
if women had been exposed to pseudo-mones (not mones at all so to speak!).

**WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN NOW**  
The [pheromone](https://pheromonelabs.com/) androstatdienone should make a comeback in the stores of  
AndroticsDirect since it seems to be really helpful in affecting a female’s mood.

\\ AplAy ///

**SOURCE**  
Saxton, T., K., Lyndon, A., Little, A., C. & Roberts, S., C. (2008). Evidence  
that androstadienone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women’s  
attributions of men’s attractiveness. _Hormones and Behavior, 54_, 597–601.

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**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/scientific-evidence-that-androstadienone-should-make-a-comeback/43270/2 "2010-11-12T22:54:25Z")

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It will never happen. Already been covered why by Michael