ReviewPerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2025
Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research.
Review in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- A quasi-randomised pilot study on the efficacy and perceived usefulness of adding chemosignals to mindfulness practice for women with social anxiety.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- An EEG-Guided Olfactory Interface: Prototype Design and Person-Specific Emotion-Decoding Validation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Breastfeeding, bonding, and olfaction: unlocking the potential of mother-infant odour exchange.EBioMedicine · 2026Review
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- Neural Tracking of the Maternal Voice in the Infant Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Prejudice, Proxemic Space, and Social Odor: The Representation of the 'Outsider' Through an Evolutionary Metaverse Psychology Perspective.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Enhanced sensitivity to odors due to chemosignals associated with anxiety.Communications chemistry · 2025Article
- A standardized lexicon of body odor words crafted from 17 countries.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Interplay of human ABCC11 transporter gene variants with axillary skin microbiome functional genomics.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Male Body Odor Affects Emotional State, LH, and Cortisol Secretion in Women of Different Age Groups.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Nature and human well-being: The olfactory pathway.Science advances · 2024Review
- Effects of psychological stress on the emission of volatile organic compounds from the skin.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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13 authors at 10 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
Although chemical signaling is an essential mode of communication in most vertebrates, it has long been viewed as having negligible effects in humans. However, a growing body of evidence shows that the sense of smell affects human behavior in social contexts ranging from affiliation and parenting to disease avoidance and social threat. This article aims to (a) introduce research on human chemical communication in the historical context of the behavioral sciences; (b) provide a balanced overview of recent advances that describe individual differences in the emission of semiochemicals and the neural mechanisms underpinning their perception, that together demonstrate communicative function; and (c) propose directions for future research toward unraveling the molecular principles involved and understanding the variability in the generation, transmission, and reception of chemical signals in increasingly ecologically valid conditions. Achieving these goals will enable us to address some important societal challenges but are within reach only with the aid of genuinely interdisciplinary approaches.
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