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Friendsoftenhavesimilarbodyodours

朋友之间的体味似乎是相似的

主题语境：人与社会主题语境内容：人际交往

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DOGSGREETotherdogsnose-first,asitwere—sniffing?eachotherfrom?head?totail.Peoplearenotquitesoopenabouttheprocessof?sniffing?eachotherout.Butthesizeofthe?perfume?industrysuggests?scent(气味)?isimportantinhuman?relations,too.Thereisalsoevidencethathumanbeingscan?infer?kinship(亲属关系),??emotional?statesandeven?detect?diseaseviathesenseofsmell.Now,InbalRavreby,KobiSnitzandNoamSobeloftheWeizmannInstituteofScience,inIsrael,havegoneastepfurther.Theythinktheyhaveshown,?admittedly?ina?fairly?small?sample?of?individuals,thatfriendsactuallysmellalike.Theyhavealsoshownthatthisisprobablythecasefromtheget-go,withpeoplepickingfriendsatleastpartlyonthebasisofbody?odour(气味),ratherthanthebody?odours?ofpeoplewhobecomefriends?subsequently?converging(趋同).

AstheyreportinScienceAdvances,DrRavreby,DrSnitzandDrSobelstartedtheirresearchbytestingthe?odours?of?20?pairs?ofestablished,non-romantic,same-sexfriends.Todothisthey?employed?anelectronicnose(e-nose)andtwogroupsofspecially?recruited?human“smellers”.

Thee-noseusedasetof?metal-oxide(金属氧化物)gassensorsto?assess?T-shirtswornby?participants.Onegroupofhumansmellersweregiven?pairs?oftheseshirtsandaskedtoratehowsimilarthey?smelt.Thoseintheothergroupwereaskedtoratethe?odours?of?individual?T-shirtsonfive??dimensions:pleasantness,?intensity,sexual?attractiveness,?competence?and?warmth.Thee-noseresultsandthe?opinions?ofthesecondgroupofsmellerswerethensubjectedtoabitof?multidimensional?mathematicalcalculationsandthey,too,emergedassimple,comparablenumbers.Allthreeapproachesyieldedthesameresult.TheT-shirtsoffriends?smelt?moresimilartoeachotherthandidtheT-shir