Agreeable smellers and sensitive Neurotics - Correlations among personality traits and sensory thresholds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Croy, Ilona ^a   Springborn, Maria ^a   Lötsch, Jörn ^b   Johnston, Amy N B ^c   Hummel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; ODOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 79955691130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018701     Document Type: Article

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