The emotional air in your space: Scrubbed, wild or cultivated?

Haviland-Jones, Jeannette; Hudson, Judith A.; Wilson, Patricia J.; Freyberg, Robin; McGuire, Terry

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2011.10.002

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“…Although narrative methods have been used extensively in other areas of psychological research when conscious methods, such as self-reports, may not be helpful (see Pennebaker, Mehl, & Niederhoffer, 2003, for a review), their use within olfaction research is only starting to emerge, but they have already been demonstrated to be a useful method. For example, work from our lab demonstrated that although self-reports indicated that participants reported no differences in pleasantness or intensity across fresh air, floral odor, or fragrance conditions, differences emerged in narrative content (Castellanos, Hudson, Haviland-Jones, & Wilson, 2010;Haviland-Jones et al, 2013). Specifically, using software designed to analyze narrative content, we observed that participants exposed to floral odors at perithreshold levels incorporated more words indicative of enjoyment.…”

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“…We observed that when individuals were exposed to perithreshold odors, they often did not report emotional changes. Instead, participants incorporated more emotion words in their narratives when asked to write about recent events (Haviland-Jones et al, 2013). Similarly, when adolescent girls were exposed to an unfamiliar fragrance, there were no direct self-report effects for any of the measures.…”

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“…Researchers have used a variety of methods, including fragrance diffusers (Guéguen & Petr, 2006;R. Sakamoto, Minoura, Usui, Ishizuka, & Kanba, 2005;Schifferstein, Talke, & Oudshoorn, 2011), fragrance pellets that aired the room using a fan (Haviland-Jones, Hudson, Wilson, Freyberg, & McGuire, 2013), carefully controlled odor chambers (Fiedler et al, 2008), or olfactory stimuli placed in jars near the participant (Herz, 2003). Currently, it is unclear whether such differences in delivery method ultimately contribute to the various psychological effects reported.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Similarly, humans may identify and respond to happiness chemosensory signals [ 2 , 6 , 22 ]. Less is known about related behavioral or neurological effects but both non-human pleasant odors (e.g., [ 29 ]) and human odors have effects on nonverbal behaviors. (For review, see [ 30 , 31 ].)…”

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Testing for Individual Differences in the Identification of Chemosignals for Fear and Happy: Phenotypic Super-Detectors, Detectors and Non-Detectors

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Mood odor identification, explicit awareness of mood odor, may be an important emotion skill and part of a complex dual processing system. It has already been shown that mood odors have significant implicit effects, effects that occur without awareness. This study applies methods for examining human individual differences in the identification of chemosignals for fear and happy, important in itself, and a key to understanding the dual processing of emotion in the olfactory system. Axillary mood odors had been collected from 14 male donors during a mood induction task. Pads were collected after 12 and 24 minutes, creating two doses. Sixty -one participants (41 females) identified the mood odor chemosignals. On a single trial, participants identified 2 doses of fear, 2 doses of happy, and a sterile control. There were 15 trials. The first analysis (rtt) showed that the population was phenotypically heterogeneous, not homogeneous, in identification accuracy. It also showed that a minimum of 10 trials was needed for test reliability. The second analysis, Growth Mixture Modeling, found three distinct groups of detectors: (1) 49.49% were consistently accurate super detectors, (2) 32.52% were accurate above chance level detectors, and (3) 17.98% were non-detectors. Bayesian Posterior Analyses showed reliability of groups at or above 98%. No differences related to mood odor valence (fear or happy), dose (collection at 12 or 24 minutes) or gender were found. Implications for further study of genetic differences, learning and function of identification are noted. It appears that many people can be reliable in explicitly identifying fear and happy mood odors but this skill is not homogeneous.

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“…Thinking affective ecologies, rather than economies, points to a material conception of how the environment interplays with this circulation. For example, humans and plants have been found to leave moods 'hanging in the air' through biochemical and semiochemical information that are perceptible through olfactory experience but not consciously processed (Haviland-Jones et al, 2013), while air pollution has even been suggested to have adverse affects on not only mood and feeling but interpersonal attraction (Rotton et al, 1978). More recent studies have drawn links between air pollution and depression (Tait, 2017), making material the 'black cloud' associated with the condition, and even suicide (Ng et al, 2016).…”

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Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies

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2020

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Social theory has paid little attention to air, despite its centrality to bodily existence and air pollution being named the world’s biggest public health crisis. Where attention to air is found, the body is largely absent. On the other hand, conceptualizing the body without life-sustaining breath fails to highlight breathing as the ongoing metabolic bodily act in which the materiality of human and more-than-human intermingle and transmute one another. Political ecology studies how unequal power structures and knowledge production reproduce human–environment relations, including a nascent focus on the body and air – but as separate issues. This article argues that a political ecology of air would productively fuse with a political ecology of the body to bring the visceral realm into intersectional analysis of air’s contemporary materialities. A feminist political ecology situates explicitly air-and-breathing-bodies, their intimately posthuman, relational, elemental and corpomaterial intra-action, at the heart of such analysis.

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The emotional air in your space: Scrubbed, wild or cultivated?

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Methods in olfactory research.

Methods in olfactory research.

Testing for Individual Differences in the Identification of Chemosignals for Fear and Happy: Phenotypic Super-Detectors, Detectors and Non-Detectors

Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies

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