People who overreact to natural odors generated by the human body sympathize with the dictatorship. Such a sudden conclusion was made by researchers from Sweden, who found a connection between the perception of smell and political preferences.
Scientists, according to the Daily Mail tabloid, conducted a very large-scale online study, in which respondents from different countries participated. Surprisingly, in fact, the perception of smells turned out to be associated with the preferred social organization.
Especially bright in this context is the example of the United States of America, which, at the time of the research, was just preparing for the election of the forty-fifth president. Scientists asked the Americans who they were going to vote for, and compared the received answers with the reaction of the same people to natural smells. And it turned out that people who hate, for example, the smell of sweat, planned to vote for Donald Trump.
“We stumbled upon some amazing evolutionary mechanism. There is, apparently, a category of people who have a particularly developed instinct to distance themselves from potential sources of infection, and it is they, due to their biological characteristics, who prefer societies with strong stratification, in which they could (theoretically) not be in contact with undesirable people for them, - say the authors of the scientific work.
Kolesnikov Andrey