ゼミ課題(NVC summary) Olfactics（ゼミ生Lbow-Shoulder）

OlfacticsSummary
　I summarize one of the categories of nonverbal communication, which I chose is Olfactics. Olfactics is the study of smell. It relates to human communication. Our body associates certain smells with different feelings and emotions. Smells also trigger our memory. Smells remain in our memory much longer than things we see or hear. People have much of a sense of smell
　A sense of smell is different between cultures. Take people in the United States, for instance. They are taught by advertisers and medical people to wash off natural odors and replace them with neutral, fragrance-free or substitute smells, such an 8×4, produced by Kao. On the other hand, people in India or Arabic people didn’t care their smells.
Olfactics have five tools as nonverbal communication, such as smell blindness, smell adaptation, smell memory, smell overload, and smell discrimination. Smell blindness is a physiological blockage. And people who are smell-blindness have taste-identification difficulties. Smell adaptation is that people gradually lose the distinctiveness of a particular smell through repeated contact with it. Smell memory is one of the abilities to recall previous situations. Smell overload is full with the many kinds of smells. Lastly smell discrimination is one of the abilities, which is that people can distinguish a particular smell. There are a summary of Olfactics.

Opinion
　I would like to discuss which Olfactics tools as nonverbal communication is important in our life. Most important tool for a comfortable life, especially diets, is smell discrimination, not smell blindness because of enjoying foods. Take people caught a cold and have a runny nose, for example. They are not able to know smells of foods, and then they are also unable to know tastes of foods and they can’t enjoy having foods. We have foods more than three times every day. That’s why smell discrimination is necessary for people to enjoy every diet.
　In other case, smell discrimination need to protect our lives. When fire occurs and there is full of smoke, we can easily realize the smoke without seeing. And we can escape a fire and protect our lives. That’s why smell discrimination is the most important Olfactics tool of nonverbal communication.