The Smell of Fear

[James Brody]

I once had a client who could do this. He could also in the darkness identify little critters by their odor. So he said...

"Exposure to the smell of fear biased women toward interpreting facial expressions as more fearful, but only when the expressions were ambiguous. It had no effect when the facial emotions were more discernable."

And would there be a performance difference between that of schizoids, narcissists, and borderlines?

More at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0306142536.htm
Zhou et al. Fear-Related Chemosignals Modulate Recognition of Fear in Ambiguous Facial Expressions. Psychological Science, 2009; 20 (2): 177 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02263.x