Your sense of smell is probably the sense that you most take for granted. In fact, in a survey of people ages 16 to 30, more than half of them (53%) said they would rather give up their sense of smell than their laptop or mobile phone. Although the sense of smell is highly important […]
Category: Performance and cognition
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee for a Performance Boost
A new study recently published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology found that the smell of coffee improves performance in math. Researcher Adriana Madzharov, a business professor from the Stevens Institute of Technology, did an experiment where 100 undergraduate students took a 10-question GMAT algebra test. Half of the students were exposed to coffee fragrance […]