Applying thermography techniques to the field of psychology, Spanish scientists have observed the “Pinocchio effect,” where a person’s nose becomes warmer when they are lying. The researchers, from the University of Granada, also found that our face temperature drops when we are performing challenging mental tasks. Thermography was developed in the USA during World War […]
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Male sex drive watered-down with tears
When we cry, we send all sorts of emotional signals. But scientists at the Weizmann Institute now say that tears carry chemical signals as well, after they observed that merely sniffing a woman’s tears reduced sexual arousal in men. Reporting their findings in Science Express, the scientists note that humans, like most animals, expel various […]