Why was Donald Trump sniffling?
In the first US presidential debate on 25 September 2016 there were many who noticed Donald Trump’s sniffling. It created a twitter storm under the hashtag #TrumpSniffles and the media became extremely interested in the presidential candidate’s health. However, Lisa Flower, a researcher in Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, who is currently doing research on emotions, offers an alternative explanation.“My research shows that sniffling can be a way for a speaker to indicate a shift from personal to professional opinions and vice versa. I have called this ‘the emotional sniff’ as personal