Mood induction with olfactory stimuli reveals differential affective responses in males and females

Chemical Senses

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-84

  Seubert, Janina ^a   Rea, Amy F ^a,b   Loughead, James ^b   Habel, Ute ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Gender; Hedonic valence; Mood induction; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

EUGENOL; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; VANILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; SEX FACTORS; SMELL;

EID: 57849154867     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn054     Document Type: Article

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