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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.' 来自比利时鲁汶大学的首席作者杰伦和他的同事们说：“气味在我们日常生活中无所不在，而且工作环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. “ 尽管有人认为坏气味会引发消极判断，但我们认为且证明了它会引起别人的怜悯之心。”这包括腋下出汗、脚臭、口臭或其他难闻的气味。 The research, published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, involved two experiments. 这项发表在《应用社会心理学杂志》上的研究涉及了两个实验。 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. | 
