A new study explores the impact of a partner's scent on sleep quality. Can smelling your partner's scent lead to better rest?
People slept better (but didn't realize it) when they could smell their partner's scents. Parents of young children may be familiar with an age-old trick: Leave your favorite sweatshirt or your own pillowcase with your sleep-resistant child at bedtime. The idea? They can smell your scent and be comforted, perhaps assuaging their urge to jump back out of bed and wake you up.
If scent cues are important to children's sleep, might they also important to adults'?in the presence of your partner can become routine and habitual. You're used to the rhythm of the night, their movements, their sounds. Providing that everyone is reasonably healthy and reasonably calm (and any children stay in their own beds), a'good night's sleep' feels like a self-assessment, one that has little to do with the other person. But what happens when your partner goes away for a couple days? Suddenly you're trying to fall asleep and it feels different or strange. Is it the extra space? Is it the lack of noise or lack of movement? Or might it be a change inA new study out of the University of British Columbia (Hofer & Chen, 2024) aimed to understand the role of a partner's scent on sleep among romantic partners. Their interest incues during sleep makes sense, given recent research on how a romantic partner's scent can have a calming effect. Indeed, in asituation, a romantic partner's body odor can lower someone's stress response and reduce their perceived distress (Granqvist et al., 2019). The'scent of security' (Granqvist et al., 2019) may trigger a parasympathetic response that lowers felt tension and increases calm.Researchers recruited 155 participants with healthy sleep histories to participate in a sleep study (Hofer & Chen, 2024). The task was simple: Participants were asked to wear a wrist sleep tracker and sleep alon
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