[lbo-talk] Study Shows We're More Attracted To The Body Odors Of People Who Vote Like Us

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Sep 17 13:37:42 PDT 2014


On Wed, September 17, 2014 3:10 pm, Joseph Catron wrote:


> "In a study recently published in the American Journal of Political
> Science, lead investigator Rose McDermott, Ph.D., of Brown University,
> found that adults were more likely to be attracted to the body odors of
> people who had similar political beliefs and repelled by the body odors of
> those with opposing ideologies."

One wonders how fine-grained the effect might be. Does it extend to sectarian antipathies? Would the pong of an old CPer's bathrobe gag me, and vice versa?



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