Chemosignals of stress influence social judgments

P Dalton, C Mauté, C Jaén, T Wilson - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Human body odors have important communicative functions regarding genetic identity,
immune fitness and general health, but an expanding body of research suggests they can …

Rapid stress system drives chemical transfer of fear from sender to receiver

JHB de Groot, MAM Smeets, GR Semin - PLoS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Humans can register another person's fear not only with their eyes and ears, but also with
their nose. Previous research has demonstrated that exposure to body odors from fearful …

Differential processing of social chemosignals obtained from potential partners in regards to gender and sexual orientation

KT Lübke, M Hoenen, BM Pause - Behavioural Brain Research, 2012 - Elsevier
On an individual level, human body odors carry information about whether a person is an
eligible mate. The current studies investigate if body odors also transmit information about …

Titrating the smell of fear: initial evidence for dose-invariant behavioral, physiological, and neural responses

JHB de Groot, PA Kirk, JA Gottfried - Psychological Science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
It is well accepted that emotional intensity scales with stimulus strength. Here, we used
physiological and neuroimaging techniques to ask whether human body odor—which can …

Can you smell my stress? Influence of stress chemosignals on empathy and emotion recognition in depressed individuals and healthy controls

A Wunder, J Ludwig, T Haertl, S Arnhardt… - Physiology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human body odors contain chemical signals that play a key role in our non-verbal
communication regarding health, genetic identity, immune system, fitness, and emotional …

Human chemosignals of disgust facilitate food judgment

Y Zheng, Y You, AR Farias, J Simon, GR Semin… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Choosing food is not a trivial decision that people need to make daily, which is often subject
to social influences. Here, we studied a human homolog of social transmission of food …

Enhanced chemosensory detection of negative emotions in congenital blindness

KD Iversen, M Ptito, P Møller, R Kupers - Neural plasticity, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
It is generally acknowledged that congenitally blind individuals develop superior sensory
abilities in order to compensate for their lack of vision. Substantial research has been done …

Unraveling the universality of chemical fear communication: evidence from behavioral, genetic, and chemical analyses

JHB de Groot, T Haertl, HM Loos, C Bachmann… - Chemical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abundant evidence indicates that humans can communicate threat-related information to
conspecifics through their body odors. However, prior research has been primarily …

Body odors (even when masked) make you more emotional: behavioral and neural insights

C Cecchetto, E Lancini, D Bueti, RI Rumiati… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Morality evolved within specific social contexts that are argued to shape moral choices. In
turn, moral choices are hypothesized to be affected by body odors as they powerfully convey …

The smelling of Hedione results in sex-differentiated human brain activity

I Wallrabenstein, J Gerber, S Rasche, I Croy… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
A large family of vomeronasal receptors recognizes pheromone cues in many animals
including most amphibia, reptiles, rhodents, and other mammals. Humans possess five …