Smell of Attraction - Science of Attraction
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2010
- Science suggests that the smell of a person can influence your attraction to them. It is a scientific fact that we can be biologically disposed to a certain type of person based on their smell. In this Channel 4 Science of Attraction video (introduced by Derren Brown and presented by Kat Akingbade and Charlie McDonnell) we'll take a closer look by taking some young couples paintballing!
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Smell is really important in the law of attraction towards other people. We might forget the people in our past but suddenly remember them because of a particular smell. A smell is like a trademark as a person. Smells good or bad but that is basically other people will gonna remember you.
when 1 out of 5 becomes 20% is not a satisfying conclusion. I'm not sure why, but their videos keep telling me that their samples is not big enough to make out that percentage. Using 1 out of 5 might makes a better impression.
How do they get all these people in their video?! Omg, even Charlie is in there.
Hey I like your videos :,)
Omg hiii!!!! I love your well informed videos
I really love your work good luck
Omg psych2go I love your videos and the animations are so cute
Studying psychology when all of a sudden to your surprise you see charlie! That made the video so much better haha
Smell and strength has always attracted me. I actually fell in love with my husband when I noticed he was stronger than most teenagers our age. We went to a summer camp together for school and a bunch of boys were playing tackle football , one by one the guys would tackle each other and hit the floor hard. A couple of times he caught the ball and I kid you not 4 guys couldn’t take him down literally had two dragging on his legs and he didn’t go down. Our instructors were also impressed. I remembered wanting to be around him more and so attracted to his scent. He’s always been a sweaty guy but, I didn’t mind. We’ve been together for a decade and a half with a big beautiful family. I’m certain his sweat has been a contributing factor in my attraction to him as he’s always been a hands on kind of guy.
How come the girls' accuracy was 70%? Did 3.5 out of 5 girls got their boyfriend's smell right?
yeah, 70% for 5 population is weird number...because if 5 is 100%, then there should only be 0, 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80%.
It's bullshit
She said almost 70 that means it wasnt 70! Duh!
I've really enjoyed these videos and I hope they continue! They could have their own series on the television :)
This channel is so full of science. I love it!!
CHARLIE. I did not expect to see him here.
imagine going up to a person and saying "mmmm, you have a sexy immune system!"
😂😂😂😂😂
7 years later, but I have had multiple women tell me they liked my b.o., no lie.
First time I just figured she loved me and didnt care, but in my next relationship.. I'd be in dire need of a shower when I got home and when they go to hug me I'd say ayyy you might want to wait til I shower 😂 then got the same reaction. I don't give a fuck about deodorant anymore honestly.
But now that I think of it, I got above average immune system for sure. Never knew the correlation 👀 til now! Interesting stuff.
Yeah, that's why this idea is stupid
This actually makes a lot of sense. When a smell reminds me of my husband it leaves me feeling happy.
I use to sweat but it didnt smell but when I grew up it started to smell
Das good
That is the result of a little thing called puberty.
Clean your liver
Bad and unhealthy habits and NUTRITION !
Also clothing, shoes, deodorants of poor quality
noooo. this must NOT be the last one. I WANT MORE. this is so interesting!
What can we conclude from this? That the man wearing no.3 clearly wasn't working up a sweat hard enough XD
the youngest couple is so freaking cute :3
So what does it say about the immune system when only one person finds the other's smell appealing but not the other way round?
Being that you are playing paintball would it be safe to say the person would release pheromones related to stress and therefore be off putting to those who smell that pheromone?
:O kat and Charlie mc donnell! I just started watching his videos last month! Had no idea he was on anything to do with derren! :D
what you ate can also affect the way you smell... like garlic for instance. then again some people like that smell while others don't, but if it changes the person's scent enough the smell could be better or worse without that factor.
this is like bio class all over again
I like science, Charlie and loooove - I like this video!
One confounding factor that would have effected the results is diet. If one person ate healthy food and drank a lot of water that day, but another person ate smelly food and didn't hydrate properly, their smell could be considerably stronger.
i love how whenever a guy says their faourite t shirt the girl's face is like
"oh i see how it is im not good enough for you well then i guess you just think i smell"
Guy number 3 had highest t level. Garantee you.
But yeah this is kinda of a sample size.
People tell me my scent smells good even tho i didnt put on deodorant or any other product.
I eat just fruits and meats with water mainly with the occasional vegtable.
And i found out after drinking like 3 strawberry banana smoothies that day my jizz smells like strawberry and vanila.
Diet really does impact your body odor.
Your smell can be changed by different factors. How healthy you are or What have you been eating. Its not just genectics
I wonder how many relationship ending fights were started due to this test.
I've watched a few of these videos now, and every time he says 'But first, here is Kat' I hear 'Here's a cat'.
As mammal females are more traditionally inclined to sort out their mates, selecting worthy genes to pass on whether males are all about seeding as much sperm as possible and aren't too picky about it, it's possible the girls could've 'smelled' some info pertaining to good health/genetic make-up
...however the doc doesn't acknowledge that nutrition has a great impact on our natural smell. The contestants' usual diet (and what they ate last) could have been used to explain the results too
guy @ 6:56 looks scared !
I just take my sweaty gym gonch and wear them right on my head when I go out to the club, works everytime
Enlighten me, how would you convert either 4/5 or 3/5 to 70%?
This experiment only gives info for people in heterosexual relationships. We don’t know their orientations, so some may be bisexual, pansexual,etc.
Can anyone explain how, out of 5 female participants, "nearly 70%" correctly identified the smell of their partner? 3/5 = 60% and 4/5 = 80% sooooooo what am I missing here?
They didn't tell us which girl's tshirt was the one chosen the most though.
Nice quality
thats what i thought- the guy who was picked as being most attractive by the girls seemed a lot healthier and stronger than the others when he was talking
I was wondering on that too. It is amazing that they conclude so easily when they have only 5 test samples. You obviously can't conclude anything out of 5 samples. Then they give us 70% result. Funny
I think it depends on if the partner wears a lot of fragrance so you never really hone in on their natural odor. You also need a specific time because for females it does change with cycles, but the component of an individuals scent is very unique to them no two are alike. They are inherited from both parents and yes they do control it. Though nowadays, we wage war on any kind of funk or off putting odor.
this is verrry interesting.
the music is awesome thooough
Once again I am shocked at the way Science of Attraction is going about things.
Why on earth was it necessary to have them do paintballing? That was a fantastic way to completely contaminate the smells with the smell of mud (which was even pointed out by one of the girls). Why not just put them all on treadmills for 15 minutes?
These results are completely useless because no thought was put into genuine scientific testing. Why is there never a control group too?
I can't decide if that's Daenerys Targaryen in the opening of the video or not...
almost all of them said that 3 was familiar. translation: all of them are cheating on each other
This is a phenomena called "histocompatability" if people want to google for more info.
@GalenSchultz Well the way you put it... that makes sense and it sounds quite fascinating. haha i definitely like the way you put it :D
Wait, if there were 5 girls how did they get an accuracy rate of 70 percent?
I just noticed that. Something is wrong.
Vishal Pendse She said "almost" 70 percent.
interesting info
HOW DO YOU GET 70% IF THERES ONLY FIVE GIRLS?
"ALMOST"
+Alana 1101 Maths.
GR8 VIDEO
why would you assume its the black girl? i mean i could understand if you meant that she was the heaviest girl and therefore would be more likely to sweat..but otherwise i dont quite get what you're trying to say there
Amy's like a model!!!
what is the name of that paintball course?
yayy! by looks alone and mannerisms alone, i guessed the nicest smelling shirt would be Ross.
The 80% = *statistics* 😆 the total is always 100%. To find percentiles you can use the mean / average to calculate it to find ranking. I won't go into detail but percentage is the same logic as finding 50% of $42.50
I wish they would have done this experiment with shirts people had just worn not like sweated in so it would just be their natural sent. Then asking if you were attracted to the smell didn't just mean which didn't smell bad.
What camera are you guys using?
Ever heard of something called converting numbers?
And why do they show Kat looking away from the camera we see so often? I don't think she knows where she should be looking?
Congrats you won comment of the day!
The experiment looks like a scene from the movie Saw.
There have been several experiments which I've read about which "support" their hypothesis (tested on hundreds of women), I don't think a youtube show would have the time/money to invite dozens of couples over and pay for their paintballs, furthermore I don't think the viewers would have the time to watch all of those people make guesses.
@Richard Smith : the sample was mix of whole and half people so ...3.5 girls correctly identified their partners ?!!? :-P
I'm hoping they did the experiment with multiple groups of five couples and are reporting mean success rate while showing only one group for illustrative purposes
Agreed!
Number 3 killing it
@Badhabitsjay dude its a tv show, not a psychological journal.
yep!
They dint tel name of the guy no. 3 whose smell was more attracted..
Why is Charlie never there in person..?
I think they are also calculating the shirts they are most attracted to....
Also the girls or boys could tell because of the shirt sizes through process of elimination
So we're all essentially attracted to immune systems?
That's weird because you can't see their immune system and they can't see yours
Definately the accent. She also reminds me of cat from Red Dwarf!
At her perfume statistic: per what???? LABEL YOUR AXES!!!!!
does this mean if we all stopped using deodorant or perfume we could find a partner easier
I think the girls are always wearing some kind of perfume deodorant or just finish showering making them never smelling like themselves making their partner unsure of what they even smell like
there were only five female test subjects for the smell test, but the results stated that 70% of them were able to identify their man's scent. that would mean that 3 and 1/2 women were able to identify their man
+Aidan Rosenau she said almost 70%
+Basic Bird but 3/5 would be 60 percent and 4/5 would be 80, there's no reason to round.
Aidan Rosenau yeah they just wanted to make it seem more impressive
how can you make a percentage of 70% from 5 samples? :D
it is after all a show, and not a full blown study. And as such, I treat it as such anyway. A bit of infotainment!
Kat has fangs. anyone notice this?
At 4:30, females are not suppose to sweat? And what's pride got to do with it?
@MsLaurenPanda The whole point of being a vegan is not eating anything processed -_-
Not that that matters, i eat normal food and smell good naturally and so do most other people. What you eat really doesnt matter. Especially as far as smells go.
CHARLIE IS SO COOL LIKE!!!!
what is the smell of 3?
2:40 ...wow major fail
I find myself attracted to these videos.
i know exactly what you mean, i think it's the way she curls up her lip when she talks..... her teeth kinda bug me a little too
OMG WHUT. CHARLIE'S IN THIS? YAAAY!
only began watching these because i saw charlie
your comment matches your name perfectly
maybe they had more then one test group?
one girl got cut in half in a saw accident while filming
So I was watching "My Strange Addiction" and I saw this, and was like Okay cool. I clicked on it and the lady was like "Let's go to Charlie" and I was like "Charlie? Charlie? CHARLIE MCDONNELL?!" So that surprised me lol
@MarleyRootz I know right the teeth is what gets me I just gaze at her teeth every time they show her
this is so funny!
CHARLIEEE!
@JoshoewaGillespie ikr
omg its charlie!!!! hahaha
science needs more than 5 people and mud to conclude what people are attracted to
damn #3 gonna get it