The odor awareness scale: A new scale for measuring positive and negative odor awareness

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 725-734

  Smeets, Monique A M ^a   Schifferstein, Hendrik N J ^b   Boelema, Sarai R ^a   Lensvelt Mulders, Gerty ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; Factor analysis; Health symptoms; Metacognition; Odor perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; ENVIRONMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ODOR; ODOR AWARENESS SCALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SMELLING; THEORY;

AWARENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54949121337     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn038     Document Type: Article

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