Comments on: Is Cupid being thwarted by “The Pill”? http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Hillary http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603/comment-page-1#comment-84254 Hillary Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:30:13 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603#comment-84254 I had a class last semester about mating preferences, and did a paper that involved the t-shirt studies. Very interesting stuff. I wish I had thought about birth control when I was doing it! I had a class last semester about mating preferences, and did a paper that involved the t-shirt studies. Very interesting stuff. I wish I had thought about birth control when I was doing it!

]]> By: Lynn http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603/comment-page-1#comment-84253 Lynn Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:25:32 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603#comment-84253 There was also a study where women were tested to see if they could smell fear--the smelled the shirts of people who sat through a horror movie vs. those that didn't, and almost all correctly identified which ones saw the movie. So either human stink if the basis for a lot of scientific thought, or there is a group of scientists who have a fetish for women smelling things. (I learned this on QI. Yay TV!) There was also a study where women were tested to see if they could smell fear–the smelled the shirts of people who sat through a horror movie vs. those that didn’t, and almost all correctly identified which ones saw the movie.

So either human stink if the basis for a lot of scientific thought, or there is a group of scientists who have a fetish for women smelling things.

(I learned this on QI. Yay TV!)

]]> By: adrienne http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603/comment-page-1#comment-84228 adrienne Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:58:30 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603#comment-84228 I wonder if the women in the study <i>knew</i> they would be sniffing random guys' shirts. I wonder if the women in the study knew they would be sniffing random guys’ shirts.

]]> By: Ransom Riggs http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603/comment-page-1#comment-84205 Ransom Riggs Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:44:19 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16603#comment-84205 There's something vaguely dirty about smelling the tee-shirts of anonymous men. There’s something vaguely dirty about smelling the tee-shirts of anonymous men.

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