{"id":684,"date":"2015-10-20T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=684"},"modified":"2016-05-16T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:56:54","slug":"the-smell-of-death-can-trigger-fight-or-flight-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2015\/10\/20\/the-smell-of-death-can-trigger-fight-or-flight-in-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"The smell of death can trigger fight or flight in humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research from a team led by a psychologist at the University suggests humans, like other species, can perceive certain scents as threatening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/wismana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Arnaud Wisman<\/a>, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">School of Psychology<\/a>, found that putrescine, the chemical produced by decaying tissue of dead bodies, can produce a fight-or-flight response in humans.<\/p>\n<p>In four different experiments, people were exposed consciously and non-consciously to putrescine.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, please go to the University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/7327\/the-smell-of-death-can-trigger-fight-or-flight-in-humans\" target=\"_blank\">News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from a team led by a psychologist at the University suggests humans, like other species, can perceive certain scents as threatening. Dr Arnaud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2015\/10\/20\/the-smell-of-death-can-trigger-fight-or-flight-in-humans\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,109,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}