Silent_Water
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Oh, I always wanted to make this test somewhere here. I once saw a biological research study on German TV concerning the so-called "Schlüsselreiz" (-> concept founder was the Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz and the translation into English is "fixed action patterns" & "sign stimulus" in evolution.
I like the German word "Schlüsselreiz" much better because it is composed of "Schlüssel" (= key) and "Reiz" (= stimulus, but also "attraction-appeal"), so it means an almost automatic stimulus which works like a key in a lock or padlock, opening automatically the doors to "secret thoughts" and "unusual behaviour". (Nice picture in your mind, isn't it?)
When you find the "Schlüsselreiz" in certain animals, e.g. birds, they immediately start their courtship display.
And in the German TV show explaining this "Schlüsselreiz", there were several examples of rather ridiculous automatisms in animals until the professor in this show said, these automatisms are still working in human beings because we are not so far from the animals as we might think. So, pubic hair is still one of those automatisms. He showed a picture like this one in original human size and asked: "What comes across your mind looking at this?"
And the laughing stopped. ... What are you thinking of?
Fixed action pattern - Wikipedia
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When you find the "Schlüsselreiz" in certain animals, e.g. birds, they immediately start their courtship display.
And in the German TV show explaining this "Schlüsselreiz", there were several examples of rather ridiculous automatisms in animals until the professor in this show said, these automatisms are still working in human beings because we are not so far from the animals as we might think. So, pubic hair is still one of those automatisms. He showed a picture like this one in original human size and asked: "What comes across your mind looking at this?"
And the laughing stopped. ... What are you thinking of?