Review of Related Literature and Studies
Review of Related Literature and Studies
This chapter features the summation of the related literature and studies
found by the researchers which pertains to, or loosely related to, causes and
2020. The related literature and studies presented in this chapter came from a
mix of foreign and local sources. This chapter aims to add external information
pertaining to the researchers’ chosen topic, while also accounting for similar
studies done in the past. All information provided in this chapter have been
RELATED LITERATURE/STUDY
REACTION TO SMELL
Olfaction, also known as sense of smell, is the most primal and mysterious
of our six senses. Throughout human evolution, our sense of smell has been a key
Smell is often the first warning of safety or danger, friend or foe. Smells have the
you can also harness the power of smell and consciously use it to your advantage.
It’s ironic that most people undervalue the power of scent. Fragrances have the
ability to evoke both positive and negative psychological states of mind and
positive smell, such as burning wood or baking cookies, can trigger a sense of
(Bergland, 2015)
Our noses or our sense of smell helps us in our daily lives. Sometimes
humans don’t notice how small things have helped them or the small help that
they received from anything or anyone. Nose is an asset to all of us, regarding
without even seeing that something is burning. Some say that the first to taste is
not the mouth or tongue but the eyes, secondly the nose, and then finally the
mouth or tongue. This is because once we see food we are attracted to how it
looks, then we smell the pleasant odor it emits that urges you to eat it, then
finally once you surrender to it, you will eat it, savoring the taste. Reaction to
smell.
RELATED LITERATURE/STUDY
Emotions have been shown to alter pain perception, but the underlying
mechanism is unclear since emotions also affect attention, which itself changes
and emotional state, using tasks involving heat pain and pleasant and unpleasant
odors. Shifts in attention between the thermal and olfactory modalities did not
alter mood or anxiety. Yet, when subjects focused attention on the pain, they
perceived it as clearly more intense and somewhat more unpleasant than when
they attended to the odor. In contrast, odor valence altered mood, anxiety level,
and pain unpleasantness, but did not change the perception of pain intensity.
Pain unpleasantness ratings correlated with mood, but not with odor valence,
affect. These results show that emotion and attention differentially alter pain
circuits.
I have learn that pain perception is greater when you focused your
attention to the pain you are feeling. Also I have learn that odor, whether
pleasant or unpleasant can alter the pain unpleasantness, but it cannot alter the
perception of pain intensity. This taught me that not everything can be affected
RELATED LITERATURE/STUDY