Dogs can smell when we're stressed out, a new study shows [View all]

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna49472

In an experiment, dogs were surprisingly accurate in detecting sweat and breath samples from people who were stressed.

It’s long been widely believed that dogs can detect extreme emotions by smell. Now scientists at Queen's University Belfast in the U.K. have proven that a dog's nose knows.

Acute stress changes the compounds found in human sweat and breath, research has shown. For the new experiment, four dogs were presented with sweat and breath samples collected from human volunteers — before and after the people engaged in a difficult math exercise.

More at link. Kudos to our puppers' amazing noses. Not surprising results, but an interesting study.