Smelling Your Partners Shirt Could Reduce Your Stress Level

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One's romantic partner's scent helps to lower the level of your stress. According to a recent study in psychology, women feel better when smelling their partner's scent on a T-shirt. A partner must not be present, but through smelling the partner's scent from his clothing, a woman feels calmer. Findings showed that a partner's scent is very powerful at reducing the level of stress in a woman even with the partner's physical absence. This is according to a recent study that was published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology obtained from the American Psychological Association. According to psychology, beginning from a young age, women fear strangers and especially men. It is, therefore, possible that scent from a male stranger could trigger the fight or flight response that leads to increased level of cortisol.

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