ReviewEvolutionary human sciences2022
Emotional expression in human odour.
Review in Evolutionary human sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- BreathSense: A Two-Stage Digital Framework for Student Stress Monitoring Using Personalized Breath-VOC Thresholding and In-the-Wild Validation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Breastfeeding, bonding, and olfaction: unlocking the potential of mother-infant odour exchange.EBioMedicine · 2026Review
- Smell Is Emotion.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- The interactive role of odor associations in friendship preferences.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Review
- The Context Matters: Women's Experiences of Their Partner's Odor in Intimate and Sexual Encounters.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Male Body Odor Affects Emotional State, LH, and Cortisol Secretion in Women of Different Age Groups.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Dissecting abstract, modality-specific and experience-dependent coding of affect in the human brain.Science advances · 2024Article
- Introduction to the special collection: The expression of the emotions in man and animals.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Recent work has demonstrated that human body odour alters with changing emotional state and that emotionally laden odours can affect the physiology and behaviour of people exposed to them. Here we review these discoveries, which we believe add to a growing recognition that the human sense of smell and its potential role in social interactions have been underappreciated. However, we also critically evaluate the current evidence, with a particular focus on methodology and the interpretation of emotional odour studies. We argue that while the evidence convincingly indicates that humans retain a capacity for olfactory communication of emotion, the extent to which this occurs in ordinary social interaction remains an open question. Future studies should place fewer restrictions on participant selection and lifestyle and adopt more realistic experimental designs. We also need to devote more consideration to underlying mechanisms and to recognise the constraints that these may place on effective communication. Finally, we outline some promising approaches to address these issues, and raise some broader theoretical questions that such approaches may help us to answer.
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