Bierling Antonie L, Croy Alexander, Bilem Fatma, Bloy Leah, Ho Fiona Yan-Yee, Jimenez Andres F, Kyjaková Pavlína, Mastinu Mariano, Power Guerra Nicole, Sailer Uta, Schirmer Annett, Silva Edgardo C, Surakka Veikko, Takau Lana, Thunell Evelina, Verma Kedarmal, Żyżelewicz Barbara R, Majid Asifa, Croy Ilona
Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
Institute for Materials Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Sci Data. 2025 Feb 22;12(1):325. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04630-8.
Body odors offer a unique window into the physiological and psychological profile of the emitter. This information, broadcast in nonverbal communication, significantly shapes social interactions. However, effectively digitizing body odors requires a precise framework for perceptual operationalization. Previous research has used a very limited number of verbal terms, such as pleasant, intense, or attractive, which fails to adequately capture qualitative differences. To address this gap, we elicited body odor descriptions from 2,607 participants across 17 countries and 13 languages. All these descriptions are presented here in one dataset, together with a condensed list of 25 body odor words (BOW). Those terms reliably differentiated between body states, and were validated in a separate study with a different group of 155 perceivers. The dataset, available as a web application, provides a novel operationalization of body odor impressions, which is a precondition for studying olfaction in human nonverbal communication, for perception-based digitization of body odors and for comparative studies.
体味为了解散发者的生理和心理特征提供了一个独特的窗口。这些通过非语言交流传播的信息，极大地塑造了社会互动。然而，要有效地将体味数字化，需要一个精确的感知操作框架。以往的研究使用的语言术语非常有限，如愉悦、浓烈或有吸引力等，无法充分捕捉质量上的差异。为了弥补这一差距，我们征集了来自17个国家、13种语言的2607名参与者对体味的描述。所有这些描述都在一个数据集中呈现，同时还有一份浓缩的25个体味词汇（BOW）列表。这些术语能够可靠地区分身体状态，并在另一项针对155名不同感知者的独立研究中得到了验证。该数据集以网络应用程序的形式提供，为体味印象提供了一种新颖的操作方法，这是研究人类非语言交流中的嗅觉、基于感知的体味数字化以及比较研究的前提条件。
