The Disgust of Authoritarianism
What the sense of smell can reveal about the moment we’re in.
On Oct 12, 2016, about one month before the U.S. Presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, a group of cognitive neuroscientists from Sweden and Italy conducted a third in a series of studies looking into a potential link between sensitivity to disgusting smells and authoritarianism.
They hypothesized that something called body odor …
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