Romantic love modulates women's identification of men's body odors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 280-284

  Lundström, Johan N ^a,b,c   Jones Gotman, Marilyn ^c  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Body odor; Discrimination; Force choice test; Identification; Mate selection; Psychophysics; Romantic love; Sex effects; Social odors

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOVE; MATE CHOICE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849114656     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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