An unprecedented survey carried out at the University of São Paulo (USP) demonstrates that odors influence not only our emotions, but interfere with our ability to interpret the emotions of other people around. At the study, researchers demonstrate the relationship between facial expressions and odors.
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Matheus Henrique Ferreira, a researcher at USP, states that there is a bilateral relationship between emotions and smells. In the study, the researcher concludes that emotions are seen and interpreted differently by others, depending on the smells present in the environment.
Conducted jointly with a group of people, the research demonstrates the intimate relationship between visual, olfactory stimuli and emotions. This means that odors help us identify facial expressions, which make us respond differently to a given smell.
Mirella Gualtieri, PhD in behavioral neuroscience, points out that the five human senses live in an integrated state and must be behave harmoniously to allow human survival, such as adaptation to the environment and communication between different people and species.
In this way, a person located in an environment with the presence of pleasant or unpleasant odors, without even knowing it, will have the your visual perception affected and, as a result, the way you perceive others' emotions from the facial expression will also be affected. changed.
The researchers use as a starting point the idea that the ability to smell may be related to the feeling of pleasure or discomfort that we feel in a certain place.
In this way, the researchers had the participants identify the facial expressions of others, such as joy moderate, and then to recognize whether this emotion was altered by the presence of a pleasant smell or unpleasant.
Thus, the study, carried out with 35 people, 20 women and 15 men, was able to demonstrate the relationship between the perception of the emotions of others and the positive or negative influence of smells.
