Gender influence on emotional responses to primary tastes

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 385-393

  Robin, O ^a,b   Rousmans, S ^b   Dittmar, A ^b   Vernet Maury, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomic responses; Emotion; Gender; Taste

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; DILUENT; MINERAL WATER; QUININE SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BITTER TASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; HAPPINESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN POTENTIAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STIMULATION; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037350708     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00981-2     Document Type: Article

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