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Who wrote "Love is in the Air"?
John Paul Young
According to the text, what do humans do to attract mates?
Release smells
What coincided with "Love is in the Air" 's success in the 1990s?
Scientific interest in why people fall in love
Who were the first scientists to investigate love in depth?
sociologists
What common belief did the first studies on love destroy?
That people love each other because of destiny
What were the names of the two scientists who released a paper in 2005?
Christine R Schwartz & Robert D Mare
What did the 2005 paper find?
People rarely marry someone who has a different level of education from their own
What two things did "research by other academics" find?
We don't fall for people from different socioeconomic backgrounds nor with different beliefs
What did the sociologists conclude about the type of people we fall for?
We fall for people who are just like us
What were scientific suspicions confirmed by in 1995?
A sweaty t-shirt
Name the Swiss zoologist who conducted the shirt experiment.
Claus Wedekind
According to the text, what gene does the sense of smell detect?
The MHC gene
Humans are attracted to very different *** genes because __________________.
It will help them produce strong offspring
How many men and women took part in the experiment?
49 women / 44 men
For how long did the experiment subjects have to wear the t-shirt?
2 days and two nights
What did Wedekind put in the seventh box?
a clean t-shirt
