Smelling chemosensory signals of males in anxious versus nonanxious condition increases state anxiety of female subjects

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-27

  Albrecht, Jessica ^a   Demmel, Maria ^a   Schöpf, Veronika ^a   Kleemann, Anna Maria ^a   Kopietz, Rainer ^a   May, Johanna ^a   Schreder, Tatjana ^a   Zernecke, Rebekka ^a   Brückmann, Hartmut ^a   Wiesmann, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fear; Odor; Olfaction; Sweat; VNO

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMOTIONALITY; ERGOMETRY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMELLING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; SWEAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 78650396559     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq087     Document Type: Article

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