This is in response to Daniel Gaines post. I dont know why our minds register certain smells good and certain smells as not appealing. I think it is because that is what we are raised to believe and our minds accept it. Kind of like in class when we talked about nature v.s. nurture. Certain things that smell bad to one person might smell great to another. Even though we do not like the smell of trash, it is quite possible that someone else loves it.
question: Do you think we would react differently to certain smells, if we werent raised to like or dislike them?
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Response to smells
Posted by Misty Elliott at 10:12 AM
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This is a response to a response about how smells are affective to people based on their being raised in different surroundings.
First, I personally think that your surroundings actually do not affect how you interpret a smell. To me it is more about the situation to which a smell has come into your life that determines how you are going to like or dislike that smell. For example, if you are attracted to someone and they are wearing a noticeable scent, then you are going to remember that smell very vividly as a good smell. Where alternatively if you disliked someone who wore a specific scent, then came across someone else who wore the same scent, it would have a negative effect towards you.
Secondly, I think that scent is sometimes based on what the body interprets as healthy or harmful to the body. As an example here, no one tells you that the smell of diarrhea is bad, but when you smell it you will know... I think that the reason is that your brain interprets that smell as something that is harmful to the body. Thus the nose explains that danger to the brain by making it smell bad.
Do you agree?
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