Wow, interesting. I'm a psychology student and this week in two of my psyc classes we were just going over this.

There have been many studies, but as Bushi suggested, a great deal of them have confounding factors. The consensus, based on in depth studies that included the largest amount of extraneous data, are that the moon has no vital physiological effects on humans. Psychological affects, on the other hand do have a connection, as Jess points out.

What has been discovered is that self-fulfilling prophecy is highly influenced by cultures that support superstitions, paranormal events, and spiritual realms. In the case of the "full moon", there are an abundance of these to go around.

No. Not in the way you have suggested. Tidal force of the moon on human body is negligible because we are so small.

"Tidal", means an effect of a different gravitational pull on a body across it's diameter.

Humans can theoretically experience a tidal force of a black hole, but not of something as "tiny" as the moon.

In absolute, yes, of course there is a tidal force applied to human body by the moon, but, in practice, no, you can't feel it, because the effect is much smaller than every second natural "bounces" in the shape of our bodies that are due to other reasons.

What would be interesting to me at least would be to measure / calculate the force differential during certain times and phases of the moon. It would be dependent on the mass of the two objects, and the distance. Fun stuff.

Hmm perhaps it has been done hmm

I decline to use the moon as an excuse for how strange of a person I am, nor would I blame anything that other than that tumor that is between my auditory receptors, sometimes accused of being a brain.

You mean to see if gravitational pull oscillation has any effect on human beings?

I think that you are correct, and it has been already studied. I seem to remember that the findings were it can be noticed, by a person that does not change it's geographical position, i.e. remains at the same spot.

If you travel even a little bit, the changes of a gravitational pull by a moon are sunk in the "nose" of stronger changes from our surroundings, such as underground cores, mountains, etc.

Don't quote me on this though...