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BY RICHARD LAYCOCK
ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY
Ever wondered what your scent says about you? It’s the basis of a study in Poland and it’s had some surprising results. My Health News Daily explains the researchers asked...
“30 men and 30 women to don white cotton t-shirts for three consecutive nights. Participants could not use fragrances, deodorants or soaps, and could not smoke or drink or eat odorous foods during the study. Participants also took a personality test.”
After that … in came the smell raters, a lucky group of one-hundred men and one-hundred women who were asked to smell the shirts. The Times of India reports...
“Raters were asked to smell the shirts and evaluate five personality traits of the donors, on a scale of one to 10. Each rater assessed six shirts, and each shirt was assessed by 20 raters.”
An article for the New York Daily News it says, while the ratings were not spot on every time, some certain personality traits were picked up more accurately.
“Though the sniffers didn't nail it every time, they were able to predict whether the shirt donors were outgoing and extroverted or neurotic and anxious about as accurately as other raters who predicted personality traits after watching a video.”
Finally -- as a LiveScience article, posted on MSNBC points out -- one result in particular has helped to strengthen a long standing belief about pheromones and potential partners.
“Judgments of dominance were most accurate in the case where an individual rater was assessing the odor of someone who was the opposite sex, suggesting such judgments are especially important when it comes to choosing a mate.”
The researchers are planning future studies in order to confirm their results.
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