The smell of fear improves your thinking
2 April 2006
by Richard Conan-Davies
| Be afraid and the smell of fear can actually improve your brain performance. This is according to researchers from Rice University. Principal investigator Denise Chen, assistant professor of psychology at Rice explained "It is well-documented in the research literature that animals experiencing stress and fear produce chemical warning signals that can lead to behavioural, endocrinological and immunological changes in their fellow animals of the same species, but we wanted to see if this applies to humans as well,"
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