Judgements of attractiveness of the opposite sex and nostril differences in self-rated mood: The effects of androstenol
| Autor: | Gareth Richards, Alan A. Beaton, Lowri Jones, David Benton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Attractiveness
Male media_common.quotation_subject Nostril Sexual Behavior Context (language use) Androstenol Affect (psychology) Arousal chemistry.chemical_compound Judgment medicine Humans media_common General Neuroscience Gender Identity Affect Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Mood medicine.anatomical_structure Feeling chemistry Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Biological psychology. 167 |
| ISSN: | 1873-6246 |
| Popis: | Androstenol has been reported to influence judgements of attractiveness and to affect participants’ mood. In the present study, participants were asked to sniff androstenol or a control odour (pure ethanol) unilaterally with the left or right nostril. Subsequently, they rated the attractiveness of photographs of the opposite sex and their own feelings on four mood scales. Participants rated the photographs as significantly more attractive after sniffing androstenol compared with the control odour. This did not depend upon androstenol being perceived as pleasant. Androstenol made male participants feel more lively, and both male and female participants more sexy, when sniffed through the right compared with the left nostril. Participants rated themselves as more irritable and aggressive when exposed to androstenol through the left nostril. The findings are discussed in relation to the effects of arousal on attraction and in the context of current theories of hemispheric differences in emotion. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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