Lavender found to increase inter-personal trust

Published: 5-Feb-2015
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Findings suggest that scent of lavender has a positive effect on mutual trust

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Lavender found to increase inter-personal trust

Psychologists Roberta Sellaro and Lorenza Colzato from Leiden, Netherlands, recently published findings in Frontiers in Psychology that suggest that the calming scent of lavender has a positive effect on mutual trust.

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