ArticleFrontiers in psychology2014
A question of scent: lavender aroma promotes interpersonal trust.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Effects of Oral Lavender Therapy on Wounding in Chimpanzees (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human-Robot Interaction.International journal of social robotics · 2022Article
- Can Aromatherapy Make People Feel Better Throughout Exercise?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Olfactory Cues of Restaurant Wait Staff Modulate Patrons' Dining Experiences and Behavior.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- The Subtle Signaling Strength of Smells: A Masked Odor Enhances Interpersonal Trust.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Editorial: Adaptive Hot Cognition: How Emotion Drives Information Processing and Cognition Steers Affective Processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- With peppermints you're not my prince: aroma modulates self-other integration.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2015Article
- Interpersonal trust: an event-based account.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
A previous study has shown that the degree of trust into others might be biased by inducing either a more "inclusive" or a more "exclusive" cognitive-control mode. Here, we investigated whether the degree of interpersonal trust can be biased by environmental factors, such as odors, that are likely to impact cognitive-control states. Arousing olfactory fragrances (e.g., peppermint) are supposed to induce a more exclusive, and calming olfactory fragrances (e.g., lavender) a more inclusive state. Participants performed the Trust Game, which provides an index of interpersonal trust by assessing the money units one participant (the trustor) transfers to another participant (the trustee), while being exposed to either peppermint or lavender aroma. All participants played the role of trustor. As expected, participants transferred significantly more money to the alleged trustee in the lavender as compared to the peppermint and control (no aroma) conditions. This observation might have various serious implications for a broad range of situations in which interpersonal trust is an essential element, such as cooperation (e.g., mixed-motives situations), bargaining and negotiation, consumer behavior, and group performance.
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