Body Odor Betrays Political Leanings
Dating and mating are far from random. We tend to pair up with people who have similar mindsets, beliefs, even body types. While religion dominates when it comes to how we select our partners, political ideology is a close second. That’s where body odor comes in. According to research published in the American Journal of Political Science, people are attracted to the body odor of those with similar political beliefs.
Unlike the religion connection, this link based on political beliefs has been poorly understood. To help explain it, researchers from various leading universities came together to conduct the body odor study. It included 125 adults who rated the body odor of 20 strongly liberal or strongly conservative people, without ever seeing them.
Overwhelmingly, the sniffers preferred the natural odor of those with political leanings similar to their own. One participant enjoyed a body odor sample so much she asked to take it home, while another suggested the very same sample had gone rancid. As you can guess, the man who provided the sample had similar political opinions to the woman that wanted to keep it, and opposite from the next woman.
