Women can smell emotions like fear and disgust on a man's skin, according to a study

World | Women can smell emotion on a man's skin: UK study

Women can smell emotions like fear and disgust on a man's skin, according to a study

LONDON - Women can smell emotions like fear and disgust on a man's skin, according to a study. The smell of perspiration released by men while they were feeling afraid or repulsed was enough to trigger the same emotion in women, an experiment showed, as reported in the Daily Telegraph. When exposed to bottled sweat given off by men as they watched clips from the thriller The Shining, women began showing physical signs of being afraid such as a fearful facial expression, darting eye movements and heavier sniffing. In contrast, the smell of perspiration from men who had been watching MTV's Jackass - which features stomach-churning stunts - caused a disgusted facial expression and other signs of the emotion, including a reduction in eye movement and sniffing. The findings suggest that certain emotions can be contagious and can be detected via chemical signals, even though the...

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