Rapid mood change and human odors

Chen, Denise; Haviland-Jones, Jeannette

doi:10.1016/s0031-9384(99)00147-x

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“…Reminiscent of faces and voices, natural body odors also carry biological salience (Chaix, Cao, & Donnelly, 2008;Chen & Haviland-Jones, 1999;Herz & Inzlicht, 2002;Jacob, McClintock, Zelano, & Ober, 2002;Ober et al, 1997;Porter & Winberg, 1999) and convey identity (the invariant aspects of body odors, including familiarity) (Lundström, Boyle, Zatorre, & Jones-Gotman, 2008;Porter & Moore, 1981;Russell, 1976;Wallace, 1977;Weisfeld, Czilli, Phillips, Gall, & Lichtman, 2003) with their genetic uniqueness (Nicolaides, 1974;Porter, Cernoch, & Balogh, 1985) in addition to signaling emotion. Systematic studies centering on facial emotion and identity perceptions have concluded that the two build on largely dissociable (Bruce & Young, 1986;Calder & Young, 2005;Haxby, Hoffman, & Gobbini, 2000).…”

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Entangled chemosensory emotion and identity: Familiarity enhances detection of chemosensorily encoded emotion

Zhou

Chen

2011

Social Neuroscience

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Biologically significant, natural human body odors covey emotion and identity--two qualities shown to build on dissociated modules in face and voice perceptions. To what extent such segregation applies to chemosensory processing of body odors has hardly been studied. The current study probes this issue by recruiting heterosexual couples, who are genetically independent yet sexually and emotionally engaged to one another, as both odor donors and odor judges, and comparing their sensitivities to the chemosensory emotional cues from their partner vs. those from opposite-sex strangers. We demonstrate that familiarity subconsciously sharpens one's sensitivity to chemosensory emotional cues, which increases as a function of the time couples have spent together. Nevertheless, the specific chemosensory identity and emotional content remain undelineated and inaccessible to verbal awareness. Our findings reveal a different pattern from those of face and voice perceptions and provide insights into the mechanisms and interplays of chemosensory emotion and identity processings.

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Entangled chemosensory emotion and identity: Familiarity enhances detection of chemosensorily encoded emotion

Zhou

Chen

2011

Social Neuroscience

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“…Human odors convey information about factors involved in mate choice, such as a woman's fertility state (Singh and Bronstad, 2001), a man's personality (Havlicek et al, 2005), age, sex, and individual identity (Schleidt et al, 1981;Chen and Haviland-Jones, 1999;Olsson et al, 2006), and levels of genetic similarity (reviewed in Havlicek and Roberts, 2009). Disassortative preferences [i.e., oriented toward the odor of people having fewer alleles in common at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)], have been reported in several studies (e.g., Wedekind et al, 1995;Thornhill et al, 2003;see Havlicek and Roberts, 2009, for a discussion).…”

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Family Scents: Developmental Changes in the Perception of Kin Body Odor?

2010

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There is increasing evidence that human body odors are involved in adaptive behaviors, such as parental attachment in infants or partner choice in adults. The aim of the present study was to investigate changes in body-odor perception around puberty, a period largely ignored for odor-mediated behavioral changes, despite major changes in social needs and in odor emission and perception. Nine families with two children (8 pre-pubertal, aged 7-10, and 10 pubertal, aged 11-18) evaluated body odors of family members and unfamiliar individuals for pleasantness, intensity, and masculinity, and performed a recognition task. The hypothesized emergence of a parent-child mutual aversion for the odor of opposite-sex family members at puberty was not found, contradicting one of the few studies on the topic (Weisfeld et al., J. Exp. Child Psychol. 85:279-295, 2003). However, some developmental changes were observed, including reduced aversion for odor of the same-sex parent, and increased ability of adults, compared to children, to recognize odor of family members. Sex and personality (depressive and aggressive traits) also significantly influenced odor judgments. Further research with larger samples is needed to investigate the poorly explored issue of how olfactory perception of self and family members develops, and how it could correlate with normal reorganizations in social interactions at adolescence.

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“…Mental effects are depression 18,20 , fatigue and sleepiness [21][22][23][24][25] mood disturbance [26][27][28][29][30] and also decrease in the individuals working efficiency 31,32 .…”

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Assessment of Odor Annoying Impacts on Trade and Serving Centers Close to a Vegetable Oil Manufacturing Plant

Monazzam¹,

Avishan²,

Asghari³

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Curr World Environ

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The environmental odor pollution emitted from different sources has undesirable impacts on communities' health and welfare in a way that caused increasing public worry and complains around the world. Pars Vegetable Oil Processing Plant (PVOPP) is located near populated residential areas in Tehran; hence, many people are exposed to the plant process annoying odor daily. In order to assess the odor annoying impacts on its nearby business centers a social survey has been applied. In the field area 200 questionnaires were intended to be filled out but 180 of them have been completed by the respondents (90%). Almost 98% of the respondents have perceived the odor from the outdoor source in their working places which is known as the industry by 78% of them. Among the respondents 42% of them have defined the odor as intolerable. Considering that industry has been recognized as the most important external parameter which affect the quality of working environments, the impact of this industrial unit on decreasing the quality level of working conditions is more obvious. The duration of presence in the working place and record of service are related to disorders in working activity and emotion and thus confirm the odor pollution impacts on the employees' efficiency.

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Rapid mood change and human odors

Cited by 82 publications

References 34 publications

Entangled chemosensory emotion and identity: Familiarity enhances detection of chemosensorily encoded emotion

Entangled chemosensory emotion and identity: Familiarity enhances detection of chemosensorily encoded emotion

Family Scents: Developmental Changes in the Perception of Kin Body Odor?

Assessment of Odor Annoying Impacts on Trade and Serving Centers Close to a Vegetable Oil Manufacturing Plant

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