ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Human olfactory communication: current challenges and future prospects.
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- There is chemistry in social chemistry.Science advances · 2022Article
- Emotional expression in human odour.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Review
- Maternal chemosignals enhance infant-adult brain-to-brain synchrony.Science advances · 2021Article
- You See What You Smell: Preferential Processing of Chemosensory Satiety Cues and Its Impact on Body Shape Perception.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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- Olfaction in the Multisensory Processing of Faces: A Narrative Review of the Influence of Human Body Odors.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The social odor scale: Development and initial validation of a new scale for the assessment of social odor awareness.PloS one · 2021Article
- Online Communication and Body Language.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- More Data, Please: Machine Learning to Advance the Multidisciplinary Science of Human Sociochemistry.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although anthropologists frequently report the centrality of odours in the daily lives and cultural beliefs of many small-scale communities, Western scholars have historically considered the sense of smell as minimally involved in human communication. Here, we suggest that the origin and persistence of this latter view might be a consequence of the fact that most research is conducted on participants from Western societies who, collectively, were rather
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