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How we can smell fear... and why it's catching

(Daily Mail 03/12/2008)

Can the sweat we produce when we are scared give off signals that are subconsciously picked up by others? U.S. researchers collected the sweat of novice sky-divers. A second group were asked to smell the samples, and some fear-free sweat, while having brain scans. When 'fear sweat' was detected, the brain's fear centres lit up more, New Scientist reports this week [more research required].

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