He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate choice contexts

Havlı́ček, Jan; Saxton, Tamsin K.; Roberts, S. Craig; Jozífková, Eva; Lhota, Stanislav; Valentová, Jaroslava Varella; Flegr, Jaroslav

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.06.019

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“…Indeed, a longitudinal study showed that initiating OC use caused a change in odor-mediated MHC preference in women, compared to a control group of non-users tested across the same (3-month) interval (Roberts, Gosling, Carter, & Petrie, 2008). If olfaction plays any part in attractiveness assessments during courtship, as it seems to (Havlicek et al, 2008), this body of work then suggests that OC use will increase the likelihood of women selecting more MHC-similar partners than they otherwise would .…”

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An Evolutionary Approach Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Relationship Between Oral Contraception and Sexual Desire

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An Evolutionary Approach Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Relationship Between Oral Contraception and Sexual Desire

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“…Humans use their sense of smell in various domains, particularly in food assessment (Sorensen et al 2003;Novakova et al 2012), avoiding dangerous chemicals (Stevenson 2010), and social interactions including mate choice (Havlicek et al 2008). Although olfactory abilities can be assessed in various ways, the most widely used measures involve the olfactory threshold (also referred to as olfactory sensitivity), odour discrimination, and odour identification.…”

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Olfactory Perception is Positively Linked to Anxiety in Young Adults

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Abstract. Olfactory abilities show a high degree of inter-individual variability and this could be partly related to personality differences. Here, in two studies, we tested a potential link between personality dimensions and olfactory perception. Sixty-eight (study 1) and a hundred and fifty-six (study 2) young adults completed the Big Five questionnaire and performed the Sniffin' Sticks test for assessing odour threshold, identification, and (in study 2) discrimination. In neither study did we find a significant link between personality dimensions and olfactory identification scores. However, in study 1, we found a significant positive correlation between the neuroticism dimension and olfactory sensitivity. This was mainly due to the anxiety and self-consciousness subscales, which load onto the neuroticism dimension. In a follow-up study, we again found a significant association between anxiety and odour perception, specifically in odour discrimination. Our results indicate that variability in anxiety could partly explain the high inter-individual variation in olfactory perception.

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“…To date, studies testing relationships between 2D:4D ratios and sexually selected traits have only focused on men's bodies and faces, although there is evidence that women use multiple testosterone-dependent cues to select mates, such as voice [25] and body odour [26,27]. As for faces [15], voice frequency and thus attractiveness are related to the level of salivary testosterone [14].…”

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Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts facial, but not voice or body odour, attractiveness in men

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There is growing evidence that human second-to-fourth digit ratio (or 2D:4D) is related to facial features involved in attractiveness, mediated by in utero hormonal effects. The present study extends the investigation to other phenotypic, hormone-related determinants of human attractiveness: voice and body odour. Pictures of faces with a neutral expression, recordings of voices pronouncing vowels and axillary odour samples captured on cotton pads worn for 24 h were provided by 49 adult male donors. These stimuli were rated on attractiveness and masculinity scales by two groups of 49 and 35 females, approximately half of these in each sample using hormonal contraception. Multivariate regression analyses showed that males' lower (more masculine) right 2D:4D and lower right-minus-left 2D:4D (Dr2l) were associated with a more attractive (and in some cases more symmetrical), but not more masculine, face. However, 2D:4D and Dr2l did not predict voice and body odour masculinity or attractiveness. The results were interpreted in terms of differential effects of prenatal and circulating testosterone, male facial shape being supposedly more dependent on foetal levels (reflected by 2D:4D ratio), whereas body odour and vocal characteristics could be more dependent on variation in adult circulating testosterone levels.

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He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate choice contexts

Cited by 98 publications

References 18 publications

An Evolutionary Approach Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Relationship Between Oral Contraception and Sexual Desire

An Evolutionary Approach Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Relationship Between Oral Contraception and Sexual Desire

Olfactory Perception is Positively Linked to Anxiety in Young Adults

Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts facial, but not voice or body odour, attractiveness in men

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