Noam Sobel

…Noam Sobel's group, originally at UC Berkeley and then at the Weizmann Institute, has published a number of papers that I'd like to discuss today. One of them, human non-olfactory cognition phase locked with inhalation. This was published in Nature Human Behavior, an excellent journal. As we inhale, What this paper shows is that the level of alertness goes…

…My reflex would be to tell them the biology of tears. Noam Sobel, who was on the podcast, told us that tears contain hormones that signal to other people, pheromones, excuse me, that literally change the biology of the people around you. We can actually smell tears. We don't realize we're doing it. See, here I go. So I realize I spend enough time with kids t…

…And there was an experiment done by an Israeli researcher, Noam Sobel, showing that we do smell our environment unconsciously in making judgments about things and people, even without noticing.…