Subconscious Sniffing of Hands Occurs After Handshakes
Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 16:40
in Psychology & Sociology
Why do we shake hands? Why do animals smell each other? These actions apparently serve the same evolutionary purpose. A study by Prof. Noam Sobel's lab at the Weizmann Institute shows that after shaking someone's hand, we subconsciously sniff our own hands twice as much as we normally do -which hand we sniff depends on the other person's gender.