According to an upcoming study, people can make accurate judgments about another person's personality based on the way he or she smells

In the study, Polish researches asked raters to sniff white-cotton T-shirts that were worn for three consecutive nights by 100 men and 100 women who had taken personality tests. The raters were then asked to make judgments about the shirt-wearer's personality based on what they smelled. Though the sniffers didn't nail it every time, they were able to predict whether the shirt donors were outgoing and extroverted or neurotic and anxious about as accurately as other raters who predicted personality traits after watching a video, researcher Agnieszka Sorokowska said. Researchers said that the sniff-testers were particularly accurate when detecting dominance in a member of the opposite sex, suggesting that men and woman are using more than their eyes and ears when choosing a potential mate.