Olfactory cues modulate facial attractiveness

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 603-610

  Demattè, M Luisa ^a,b   Österbauer, Robert ^c   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facial attractiveness; Olfaction; Pleasantness; Vision

Indexed keywords

FRAGRANCE; RUBBER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; GERANIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; BEAUTY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 34547910241     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm030     Document Type: Article

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