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Behavior’s Influence on Biology
One of the basic tenets of psychological science holds that the biology of our brains heavily influences our actions, behaviors, judgments, and more. But what if we reverse that premise and examine an opposite supposition
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You really do smell sick
The Boston Globe: Next time someone says that you stink, you might want to take it as friendly medical advice. In an experiment, healthy volunteers were injected with either saline placebo or lipopolysaccharide—a molecule found
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Body’s Response to Disease Has a Smell, Study Suggest
LiveScience: Humans may be able to smell sickness, or at least detect a distinct odor in the sweat of people with highly active immune systems who are responding to infection, a new study from Sweden
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Body’s Response to Disease Has a Smell
Discovery News: Humans may be able to smell sickness, or at least detect a distinct odor in the sweat of people with highly active immune systems who are responding to infection, a new study from
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Building Your Brand’s Warmth and Competence
The Entrepreneur: If you want more customers, you need to get warmer. It turns out customers stereotype companies the way they stereotype people. We want a combination of warmth and competence from our brands, just
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Cognition Colored by Emotion
Emotions can sometimes act as a kind of “sixth sense,” steering us toward certain behaviors, decisions, and judgments. Perhaps no one is more familiar with these emotional phenomena than affective science pioneer Gerald L. Clore
