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Fearless

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How to Detect Chemical Fear in the Environment

Alarm paramons have been shown to exist in all kinds of animals. Sheep and deer move faster, freeze or get more aggressive when they fear another animal. So you're seeing this, why not in humans? Do humans emit some sort of chemical fear that could change the humans around them? And that led to a whole series of experiments where, you know, unfortunate, we had to make people afraid,. She collected the sweat of very terrified people as they jumped out of an airplane for the first time ever. Then she took that fierce sweat and wafted it into the noses other people lying down in f m r es. And what we saw is that the fiere centre of the

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