Sorokowska Agnieszka, Oleszkiewicz Anna
Smell and Taste Research Lab, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, pl. Dawida 1, 50-527 Wroclaw, Poland; Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, TU Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Smell and Taste Research Lab, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, pl. Dawida 1, 50-527 Wroclaw, Poland; Smell & Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, TU Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Physiol Behav. 2019 Oct 15;210:112573. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112573. Epub 2019 Jun 24.
People exhibit different sensitivity to the signaling properties of body odors in the social context. Here, we aimed to investigate whether visual status modulates sensitivity to socially-relevant cues carried by body odors and whether it affects psychophysical ratings of such smells. We compared abilities of 19 early-blind, 9 late-blind and 13 sighted people to accurately assess sex, neuroticism and dominance of odor donors based on body odor samples. We showed that early blind, late blind and sighted people do not differ in accuracy of sex and personality assessments based on body odor samples. Additionally, the three participating groups perceived the presented body odor samples as similarly intense, pleasant and attractive. We discuss our findings in the context of interpersonal olfactory communication and olfactory compensation.
在社交情境中，人们对体臭的信号特性表现出不同的敏感度。在此，我们旨在研究视觉状态是否会调节对体臭所携带的社会相关线索的敏感度，以及它是否会影响此类气味的心理物理学评级。我们比较了19名先天性盲人、9名后天性盲人和13名视力正常者根据体臭样本准确评估气味提供者的性别、神经质和支配性的能力。我们发现，先天性盲人、后天性盲人和视力正常者在基于体臭样本进行性别和性格评估的准确性方面没有差异。此外，三个参与组对所呈现的体臭样本的强度、愉悦度和吸引力的感知相似。我们在人际嗅觉交流和嗅觉补偿的背景下讨论我们的研究结果。
