Animal Behavior Teaching ResourcesArticle by Travis Dixon, IB Psychology webpage, describing the Sweaty T-shirt study and the role of MHC genes. Includes references and critical thinking questions.
Assigned to support material covered in a Sexual Selection class. Assigned along with For gay men, an attraction to a different kind of scent
Course content area – Sexual Selection or Human Evolution & Behavior
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
New York Times article, by Nicholas Wade, describes research that is looking at patterns of brain activity when queer individuals smell pheromones of males and females.
I assign this article along with the famous t-shirt sniff article in which heterosexual females sniff the t-shirts of males and rate their attractiveness – Key Study: “The Sweaty T-shirt Study” (Wedekind et al. 1995)
Course content area – Sexual Selection or Human Evolution & Behavior
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
