Affective semantic space of scents. Towards a universal scale to measure self-reported odor-related feelings

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 128-138

  Ferdenzi, Camille ^a   Delplanque, Sylvain ^a   Barbosa, Plinio ^b   Court, Kimberly ^c   Guinard, Jean Xavier ^c   Guo, Taomei ^d   Craig Roberts, S ^e   Schirmer, Annett ^f   Porcherot, Christelle ^g   Cayeux, Isabelle ^g   Sander, David ^a   Grandjean, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g Email:   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affective feelings; Culture; Emotion; Olfaction; Self report

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879294741     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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