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Sorokowska, Agnieszka, Groyecka, Agata, Karwowski, Maciej, Frackowiak, Tomasz, Lansford, Jennifer E, Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh, Alghraibeh, Ahmad M, Aryeetey, Richmond, Bertoni, Anna, Bettache, Karim et al.
(2018) Global study of social odor awareness. Chemical Senses, 43 (7). pp. 503-513. doi:10.1093/chemse/bjy038

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Abstract

Olfaction plays an important role in human social communication, including multiple domains in which people often rely on their sense of smell in the social context. The importance of the sense of smell and its role can however vary inter-individually and culturally. Despite the growing body of literature on differences in olfactory performance or hedonic preferences across the globe, the aspects of a given culture as well as culturally universal individual differences affecting odor awareness in human social life remain unknown. Here, we conducted a large-scale analysis of data collected from 10,794 participants from 52 study sites from 44 countries all over the world. The aim of our research was to explore the potential individual and country-level correlates of odor awareness in the social context. The results show that the individual characteristics were more strongly related than country-level factors to self-reported odor awareness in different social contexts. A model including individual-level predictors (gender, age, material situation, education and preferred social distance) provided a relatively good fit to the data, but adding country-level predictors (Human Development Index, population density and average temperature) did not improve model parameters. Although there were some cross-cultural differences in social odor awareness, the main differentiating role was played by the individual differences. This suggests that people living in different cultures and different climate conditions may still share some similar patterns of odor awareness if they share other individual-level characteristics.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Smell -- Social aspects, Odors -- Social aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Chemical Senses
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0379-864X
Official Date: September 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
September 2018Published
27 June 2018Available
14 June 2018Accepted
Volume: 43
Number: 7
Page Range: pp. 503-513
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjy038
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
IP2014 043773Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższegohttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004569
RG-1439-012King Saud Universityhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002383

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