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- TITLE OF ARTICLE: Aroma Driven: On the Trail of the Most Emotional
- Sense
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- AUTHOR: Benderly, Beryl Lieff
- JOURNAL NAME: Health
- DATE: Dec. 1988
- PAGE(S) ?-77
- ACCESSION NUMBER: 02
- SENSE(S): Smell
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- ABSTRACT: The main subject of this article is the
- connection between the sense of smell and behavior,
- <LK106 SMELL> and especially emotions. Major foci
- of this article are the following: that pleasure
- and pain are closely associated with smell; smell
- and the effects it has on the brain; smell and the
- effect it has on memory (researchers seem to agree
- that smell triggers distant memory more effectively
- than other sense); the social effects of smell,
- which included results of animal studies.
- <ABS08 BRAIN CHEMISTRY>
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- RESEARCHERS QUOTED IN ARTICLE:
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- Beauchamp, Gary. Assistant director at Monell.
- Exploring the effect of smell on immune system.
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- Engen, Trygg. Psychologist cited from book titled
- "The Perception of Odors."
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- Hart, Benjamin L. Veterinarian who has researched
- the male moth's ability to sense a female moth
- through smell.
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- Nezlek, John. Psychologist at College of William and
- Mary researching effect of fragrance on social
- interactions.
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- Schell, Ann, a psychologist at Occidental College
- in Los Angeles. She researches the emotional
- reaction of people to odors.
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- Schmidt, Hilary. From Monell Chemical Senses
- Center, she is investigating babies' and childrens'
- responses to smell.
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- Snyder, Solomon. Of Johns Hopkins University, he
- found an oderant-binding protein produced in the
- nasal epithelium that may account for human ability
- to smell very small concentrations of substances.
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- Warm, Joel S. PSYCHOLOGIST researching effect of
- odors on worker's efficiency and ability of odors
- to reduce worker stress.
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