Friendship/Science
Science Says You’re A Nose Picker
It’s true. We all do it.
Erin King is the author of the book “How To Be Wise AF: 30-Day Guided Journal For Women” and other wellness, gratitude, and wellbeing resources.
Have you ever met someone and just “clicked”? There was just something you liked about them that you couldn’t quite put your finger on.
Well, maybe what you like about them comes from something you can’t quite put your finger “in,” and no, that wasn’t a typo because researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered something interesting about how we make fast friends.
It has to do with following your nose.
This makes sense when you think about it because the research about smell and other relationships is already out there.
Not only can mothers identify their newborn babies by smell, but introducing a hospital robe to a baby with its mother’s scent or even another mother’s will subdue crying in newborns. The robe with its own mother’s scent will also increase “mouthing.”
It’s also widely known that pheromones play a part in falling in love but did you know that there have been studies linking the weakening of a relationship to the level of revulsion toward a partner’s B.O.
