The bitter with the sweet: The taste/stress/temperament nexus

Biological Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-119

  Dess, Nancy K ^a   Edelheit, David ^a  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Dominance; Humans; Pleasure; Stress; Taste; Temperament

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RAT; STRESS; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTION; SACCHARIN; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 0031878994     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(98)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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