A social chemosignaling function for human handshaking

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Frumin, Idan ^a   Perl, Ofer ^a   Endevelt Shapira, Yaara ^a   Eisen, Ami ^a   Eshel, Neetai ^a   Heller, Iris ^a   Shemesh, Maya ^a   Ravia, Aharon ^a   Sela, Lee ^a   Arzi, Anat ^a   Sobel, Noam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; HANDSHAKE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; SNIFF; SOCIAL CHEMOSIGNALING; ADULT; HAND; ODOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85006310653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05154     Document Type: Article

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