Category: Performance and cognition

10 Ways What You Smell Can Change Behavior and Perceptions

Jennifer Dublino | Posted on September 17, 2018 |

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 […]

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee for a Performance Boost

Jennifer Dublino | Posted on July 17, 2018 |

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 […]