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Soulmates can actually smell partners’ fear and happiness |
NEW YORK: Couples who are close can
actually detect each other’s feelings of fear, happiness and sexual
arousal, claims a study.
“Familiarity with a partner enhances
detection of emotional cues in that person’s smell,” Rice University
psychologist Denise Chen told ScienceNews.
Chen and her team looked
at 20 heterosexual couples who had been living together for between one and
seven years. As volunteers viewed videos meant to induce feelings of happiness,
fear and sexual arousal, underarm pads collected their sweat.
Then
the participants smelled odors from four jars that held the sweat from their
partner or a stranger of the opposite sex, and tried to name one smell that came
from a person who was experiencing a particular feeling.
One jar held
sweat that was collected during a video meant to induce particular emotions. The
other jars contained perspiration that had been collected during a neutral
video.
Nearly two-thirds of the time, participants could pick up the
specific emotions from their partner’s body odor, and couples who had
lived together the longest were best at homing in on each other’s
emotional odors. The accuracy rate dropped to 50% for opposite-sex strangers.
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