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Dr. Noam Sobel: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior

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The Effects of Handshakes on Behavior

A study led by Don Fruhmin in our lab at the time asked whether that's a real thing. And what we did first, and if you want, we can link. This was published in eLife. One is unbeknownst to participants, we measured nasal airflow and people not only bring their hand to their nose, they sniff it. So this was an all factory behavior. No doubt about it. I mean, we're quite confident afterwards up or down.

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