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Lead author Jeroen Camps and colleagues, from the university KU Leuven in Belgium, said: 'Scents are omnipresent in our daily world and they are of great importance as represented by the use of perfumes or fragrances in the work environment.'
來自比利時魯汶大學的首席作者杰倫和他的同事們說：“氣味在我們日常生活中無所不在，而且工作環境里香水或香味的使用非常重要。”
'Even though it has been argued that bad scents invoke negative judgments, we argued and demonstrated that a bad body odour elicits feelings of pity in others.'This can include underarm sweat, smelly feet, bad breath or other foul-smelling odours. “
盡管有人認為壞氣味會引發消極判斷，但我們認為且證明了它會引起別人的憐憫之心。”這包括腋下出汗、腳臭、口臭或其他難聞的氣味。
The research, published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, involved two experiments.
這項發表在《應用社會心理學雜志》上的研究涉及了兩個實驗。
In the first experiment, 36 participants were randomly placed into two groups.Half were asked to sniff a bad smelling T-shirt that had been dowsed in human sweat, beer and sprayed with foul smells. The other half smelt a more neutral-smelling T-shirt.All the T-shirts were of the same shape and colour and all participants were told to imagine the item belonged to someone they worked with.Researchers then measured how participants felt about the other person, using ratings from one - totally disagree, to five - totally agree.Participants in the odour condition felt significantly more pity than those in the neutral condition.
第一個實驗中，36個參與者被隨機分成兩組。一半被要求聞氣味不好的t恤，它浸過汗液、啤酒，還噴了臭味。另一半聞的是無氣味的T恤。所有T恤的樣式和顏色相同，全部參與者被要求想象T恤屬于他們的某個同事。研究人員然后測試參與者對那個人的感受，使用從1（完全不同意）到5（完全同意）的評價方法。在“氣味”條件下的參與者的比在“中性”條件下的參與者更有憐憫心。
A second experiment involved 62 participants. They were first asked to complete a maze alone before being seated next to someone wearing either a neutral or bad smelling T-shirt and asked to complete another maze.Finally, participants moved to a third room and were asked to divide 11 credits giving a chance to win film tickets between themselves and the other person.People who had sat next to an unpleasant smelling person donated more credits to him or her on average than people who sat next to someone without bad body odour.The authors said this 'showed that there are situations in which a person's unpleasant body odour increases others' helping behaviours toward this person'.
第二個實驗有62名參與者。在旁邊坐著穿沒氣味或有氣味T恤的人完成謎題之前，他們先被要求獨自完成謎題。最后，參與者到第三個房間被要求劃分11分來評價自己和對方贏電影票的機會。比起坐在沒有糟糕體味旁邊的人，坐在不愉快氣味邊的人平均給更多的分數。作者說“這表明有些情況下，一個人的體味會增加別人對他的幫助”。
However, the earlier findings also indicate that if such information is not available 'people seem to give the bad smelling person the benefit of the doubt'.
然而，早期的研究結果也表明，如果這些信息不可用，“人們似乎會給壞氣味的人質疑的眼神”。
