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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 167, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108237
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Androstenes; Androstenol; Attractiveness; Cerebral lateralisation; Olfaction
Androstenol affects the judgement of attractiveness and participants' mood. Sniffing Androstenol through the right nostril makes male participants feel more lively and both male and female participants feel sexier. Sniffing Androstenol through the left nostril makes participants rate themselves as more irritable and aggressive.
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.
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