He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate choice contexts

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 565-570

  Havlicek, Jan ^a   Saxton, Tamsin K ^b   Roberts, S Craig ^b   Jozifkova, Eva ^a   Lhota, Stanislav ^c   Valentova, Jaroslava ^a   Flegr, Jaroslav ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Body odor; Gender; Human; Mate choice; Olfaction; Perception; Sex differences; Smell

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349083643     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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