The moon's influence?

Question

How and why does the full moon influence a person's behavior?

Answer 1

I believe it is still unproven, but i would suggest it would have to be related to the human body's composition of mostly water. We do know the moon affects the waves in the ocean.
Possibly a Brain Tsunami?

Answer 2

One idea is that the full moon disrupts people's sleep (too bright at night for some people). Whether this happens or not is probably up for discussion, but we can assume that a few people are affected atleast.
If they get worse sleep, they will be irritable in the morning and maybe throughout the day like any of us who don't get a good nights sleep.

Answer 3

GRAVITATIONAL INFLUENCE OF THE MOON

The Moon orbits the Earth because of the force of Earth’s gravity. However, the Moon also exerts a gravitational force on the Earth. Evidence for the Moon’s gravitational influence can be seen in the ocean tides. The Moon, being much nearer to the Earth than the Sun, is the principal cause of tides. Because the force of gravity decreases with distance, the Moon exerts a stronger gravitational pull on the side of the Earth that is closer to it and a weaker pull on the side farther from it. The Earth does not respond to this variation in strength because the planet is rigid—instead, it moves in response to the average of the Moon’s gravitational attraction. The world’s oceans, however, are liquid and can flow in response to the variation in the Moon’s pull. On the side of the Earth facing the Moon, the Moon’s stronger pull makes water flow toward it, causing a dome of water to rise on the Earth’s surface directly below the Moon. On the side of the Earth facing away from the Moon, the Moon’s pull on the oceans is weakest. The water’s inertia, or its tendency to keep traveling in the same direction, makes it want to fly off the Earth instead of rotate with the planet. The Moon’s weaker pull does not compensate as much for the water’s inertia on the far side, so another dome of water rises on this side of the Earth. The dome of water directly beneath the Moon is called direct tide, and the dome of water on the opposite side of the Earth is called opposite tide.

As the Earth rotates throughout the day, the domes of water remain aligned with the Moon and travel around the globe. When a dome of water passes a place on the Earth, that place experiences a rise in the level of the ocean water, known as high tide or high water. Between successive high tides the water level drops. The lowest water level reached between successive high tides is known as low tide or low water. Low and high tides alternate in a continuous cycle. The variations that naturally occur in the level between successive high tide and low tide are referred to as the range of tide. At most shores throughout the world, two high tides and two low tides occur every lunar day, the average length of a lunar day being 24 hours, 50 minutes, and 28 seconds. One of these high tides is caused by the direct-tide dome and the other by the opposite-tide dome. Two successive high tides or low tides are generally of about the same height.

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Answer 4

That's more ghost stories, and old wives tales than anything else. There is no proof of the moon influencing anyone at any phase of it. It is people giving in to ideas presented to them, not any real influence.

Answer 5

It doesn't - excpet for one phenenoma - a female's mensus.

This cycle is built into the human anatomy - 28 days +/- 2 days.

It must have SOME basis in the lunar cycle.