Derivation and evaluation of a labeled hedonic scale

Chemical Senses

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 739-751

  Lim, Juyun ^a   Wood, Alison ^a   Green, Barry G ^b,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

9 point hedonic scale; Category ratio scale; Labeled hedonic scale; Magnitude estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAVOR; HEDONICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABELED HEDONIC SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049141344     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjp054     Document Type: Article

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