Posted on 03/04/2015 11:51:01 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Anyone who’s ever seen two dogs interacting with each other knows they love sniffing each other’s butts. Why? Because their powerful noses are able to pick up loads of information, including the other dog’s gender, diet, and emotional state. Dogs aren’t the only ones to behave this way; rats and primates do as well, including humans, according to a new study. And when it comes to the way we do it, you may have never even noticed it.
The study, from researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, found that many of us sniff our hands after a handshake, and suggested it could be because we’re checking out their scents. In fact, they found the average number of seconds a person spent smelling their hands nearly doubled after shaking another person’s hand when compared to smelling their own hand for the sake of it.
“It’s well known that germs can be passed on through skin contact in handshakes, but we’ve shown that potential chemical messages, known as chemosignals, can be passed on in the same manner,” said Idan Frumin, a research student at the Institute, in a press release. It’s hard to believe that our hands would unconsciously move up to our noses for a sniff following a handshake (we’re just scratching our noses, right?), but whether it was immediately after or once that person left the room, sniffing increased by over 100 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicaldaily.com ...
Really? I’ve NEVER seen or displayed this behavior.
Is this why the lamestream media keeps kissing Obama's butt?
-PJ
No one I know, do I ever recall them doing this. Including me. Where do they find these people?
Um... no! what? gross!
Who’s “we”? I never do that. Seems like lately shaking hands at least with acquaintances in informal settings, is being replaced by “bumping fists” (certainly seems cleaner - although maybe not a warm and friendly).
I wash them I don’t sniff them.
And if it was obozo who touched me I would disinfect them.
Really? I have NEVER seen anyone do that.
Gayer than a Maypole, Wagyu steaks and lobster, crazy as an outhouse rat.
I like to sniff my own hand before a handshake, but only if I’ve been scratchin’ my butt. Oh, hi there, buddy, glad to see you!
I don’t shake hands but for once every couple years or so and would certainly not sniff my hands afterward. More like douse in 91% isopropyl alcohol.
WHAT?
(nevermind, this must be from the Onion)
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Ditto!
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Um, no. Nope, never. I smell BS.
It would be bizarre.
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>> “Where do they find these people?” <<
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Sitting behind a desk in the newsroom set of all of the alphabet soup gang.
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I never have done that i usually whip my hand on my pants afterwards as if i am smoothing my pant leg
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