How does smell impacts our behavior? Do we communicate fear in our sweat? In our lab, we study ‘social’ odors (body odors), communicated from a sender to a receiver to regulate adaptive behavior. This includes emotions, but also parent-child bonding, for example.
Research projectsWhat are social functions of (body) odors?
- Our research demonstrates that humans have an excellent sense of smell: the effects of smell on social communication are robustly found across measures and populations.
Our teamWho are the members of the team?
