Releasers: Understanding the Triggers of Innate Behaviors

Releaser is a component of all innate behaviors.

Innate behaviors are those behaviors that are genetically programmed and are not learned. For example, a newborn baby will instinctively know how to suck on a nipple.

Releasers are stimuli that trigger innate behaviors. For example, the sight of a nipple will cause a newborn baby to start sucking.