Argyro Poursanidou
Freshly baked bread
The aroma of freshly-baked bread has more than just the power to make your mouth water. According to a new study, it can also make you a kinder person.
According to the Daily Mail, researchers at the University of Southern Brittany in France found that shoppers were more likely to alert a random passerby that they had dropped a belonging if, at the time, they were also passing a bakery giving off the sweet scent of baking bread.
The findings, published in the Journal of Social Psychology, suggest that certain smells can trigger a more positive mood, which leads to a greater degree of altruism in strangers.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/the-smell-of-fresh-bake...
Freshly baked bread
The aroma of freshly-baked bread has more than just the power to make your mouth water. According to a new study, it can also make you a kinder person.
According to the Daily Mail, researchers at the University of Southern Brittany in France found that shoppers were more likely to alert a random passerby that they had dropped a belonging if, at the time, they were also passing a bakery giving off the sweet scent of baking bread.
The findings, published in the Journal of Social Psychology, suggest that certain smells can trigger a more positive mood, which leads to a greater degree of altruism in strangers.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/the-smell-of-fresh-bake...