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In humans, no one has identified analogous chemical compounds that serve as signals or prompt behavior in these ways, Wysocki said.
CNN: Sweat may give off stress signals, study says
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One of Wysocki's studies showed that when women were exposed to male underarm sweat, they became more relaxed and less tense.
CNN: Sweat may give off stress signals, study says
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Wysocki questioned the procedures that the Stony Brook study used to isolate the sweat chemicals from participants and whether the actual compound that could have triggered behavioral patterns was preserved.
CNN: Sweat may give off stress signals, study says
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There is no hard evidence that the same kinds of pheromones found in animals also exist in humans, said Charles Wysocki, researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
CNN: Sweat may give off stress signals, study says
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Other studies have concluded that people give off different body odors that correspond to certain emotional situations, but what hasn't been shown is whether other people become a little stressed after smelling the body odor from stressed people, Wysocki said.
CNN: Sweat may give off stress signals, study says