SciShow: Why Do People Like the Smell of Gasoline?

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Content of the Lesson: Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Why do we love the smell of something like gasoline that provides no clear evolutionary adaptation for us? Here are the psychological and chemical reasons that some researchers have suggested. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/PHS/PHS.aspx?phsid=466&toxid=83 https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/inhalants https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Benzaldehyde#section=Effluent-Concentrations https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027021003575?via%3Dihub https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29070767/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel-Herz-2/publication/239919178_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_LIKE_UNDERSTANDING_ODOR_PREFERENCES/links/00b49532af991c02ed000000/I-KNOW-WHAT-I-LIKE-UNDERSTANDING-ODOR-PREFERENCES.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828545/ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-2558-3_4 http://www.idph.state.il.us/cancer/factsheets/gasoline.htm https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp72-c3.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138708/ https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Sacramento_City_College/SCC%3A_Chem_309_-_General_Organic_and_Biochemistry_(Bennett)/Text/10%3A_Organic_Functional_Groups_-_Introduction_to_Acid-Base_Chemistry/10.03%3A_Physical_Properties_of_Carboxylic_Acids https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163639 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444638557000071 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2015.00049/full Image Sources: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/young-woman-uses-her-smartphone-while-she-re-filling-stock-footage/1407635399 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/berry-pie-royalty-free-image/171339819 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/newborn-baby-one-month-old-holding-fingers-mothers-royalty-free-image/1439349585 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/hand-of-a-gas-station-man-is-putting-gasoline-into-a-car-stock-footage/1385365373 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benzene-aromatic-3D-balls.png https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/nose-smelling-close-up-stock-footage/1293471002 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/attendant-from-gas-station-refueling-a-car-stock-footage/1192664352 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/woman-with-hand-in-breeze-stock-footage/156900027 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/child-in-the-supermarket-buys-candies-and-sweets-stock-footage/989958448 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dopamine-based-on-xtal-3D-bs-17.png https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/destruction-of-a-cell-conceptual-image-royalty-free-image/623942432 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/gas-nozzle-is-getting-taken-out-from-cars-fuel-tank-stock-footage/1127307299 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/fish-on-a-plate-royalty-free-image/828448720 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/goat-looks-at-us-royalty-free-image/486869012 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/cars-on-gasoline-refueling-station-time-lapse-stock-footage/1279988594


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