No fear no risk! Human risk behavior is affected by chemosensory anxiety signals

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3901-3908

  Haegler, Katrin ^a   Zernecke, Rebekka ^a   Kleemann, Anna Maria ^a   Albrecht, Jessica ^a,b   Pollatos, Olga ^c   Brückmann, Hartmut ^a   Wiesmann, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety chemosignals; Decision making; HRG; Human body odors; Risk taking behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; RESPONSE TIME; SWEAT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; PHEROMONES, HUMAN; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEAT;

EID: 78149413361     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.019     Document Type: Article

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