Psychology
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On the Nose: What to Learn from Funk and Fragheads
Happy grad season!! This Odorbet word selection is by Alexandra Segal*, Wesleyan University class of 25, who recently wrote her undergraduate anthropology thesis on perfume and queerness. It received both High Honors and the 2025 Gay, Lesbian, and Sexuality Studies (GLASS) Prize for best research and writing in the field. Alexandra grew up in Los…
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The Nose and Our Evolutionary Impulse: Sex, part two
As a clinical mental health therapist I spend a lot of time trying deeply not to pathologize normal behavior in one breath, and trying to research biological and science-based clues to our social and emotional functioning to make a case, make sense of or dissolve a diagnosis. I work with adolescents often, and this is…
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A Curious Case of Nosebo
What you put your attention on grows stronger. – anonymous Image artwork courtesy Catherine Haley Epstein Our minds are literal judgement factories, we create hundreds of thousands of judgments a day including a host of “good, “bad”, “safe”, “dangerous”, “great ,“horrible”, all in the name of self-preservation. Some of us realize due to serious introspection…
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