Regularly Referenced

This page helps me to easily cite the research I reference most often. It also provides some insight into my methodology for critique.

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1. “The Sweaty T-Shirt Experiment”
   • The findings of which can be extrapolated to suggest that smell is a good indicator of sexual compatibility for women of men — in that people who don’t have a high degree of genetic overlap will be rated as smelling more “pleasant” to an individual than someone who does have a high degree of genetic overlap because your sweat varies based on your genes
   • https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.evo.sweatytshirts/sweaty-t-shirts-and-human-mate-choice/
   • Limitation to the study:
     • “WEIRD” (White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) sample
     • Small sample (n = 49 women & 44 men)
     • Males were asked to wear a t-shirt for two consecutive nights but while they did control for grooming and diet, they did not control for fabric and activity levels habits of the men which could covary with odor
       • This is important because sweat excreted during sex smells perceptibly different from sex excreted during exercise
         • Zhou, W., Chen, D., 2008. Encoding Human Sexual Chemosensory Cues in the Orbitofrontal and Fusiform Cortices. J. Neurosci. 28, 14416–14421. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3148-08.2008
     • “This difference in odor assessment was reversed when the women rating the odors were taking oral contraceptives.”
   • Replication/Supporting Evidence
     • Wedekind, C.; et al. (1995). “MHC-dependent preferences in humans”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 260 (1359): 245–49. doi:10.1098/rspb.1995.0087

2. Elevator Experiment (amusing support for the theory of peer pressure)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOOsfkM-nGQ (This is a modern replication of the Elevator Experiment)

3. The Asch Experiment (further amusing support for the theory of “group conformity”)

4. Evidence to suggests that animals are capable of perceiving injustice