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Chemosignals of Fear Enhance Cognitive Performance in Humans

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It is a somewhat strange thought, but a sample of fear sweat on your desk could improve your professional performance. The stimulating effect was recently discovered in research at the Rice University in Houston, USA. For this occasion, researchers made an army of volunteers watch a neutral documentary and a horror movie. During watching, the volunteers held a dot of cotton under their arm to collect some sweat. Next, other test persons got one of those dots of cotton fixed under their nose during a test with word games on a computer. The results?

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Rice University in Houston, USA
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http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/
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Denise Chen, Ameeta Katdare, and Nadia Lucas
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English

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