ArticleChemosensory perception2017
Babies Smell Wonderful to Their Parents, Teenagers Do Not: an Exploratory Questionnaire Study on Children's Age and Personal Odor Ratings in a Polish Sample.
Article in Chemosensory perception, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06058208 (The Effect of Baby Smell and Visual Stimulus Program on Mothers' Cortical and Breast Oxygenation, Milk Amount and Mother-Infant Attachment), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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The Effect of Baby Smell and Visual Stimulus Program on Mothers' Cortical and Breast Oxygenation, Milk Amount and Mother-Infant Attachment: Randomized Controlled Study
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effect of Watching Infant Video With or Without Smelling an Infant-Scented Hat With Infant Scent on Anxiety, Milk Volume, Stress, and Attachment in Mothers of Hospitalized Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Nature and human well-being: The olfactory pathway.Science advances · 2024Review
- Body odor samples from infants and post-pubertal children differ in their volatile profiles.Communications chemistry · 2024Article
- The Link between Attachment Style and Self-Reported Olfactory Ability: A Preliminary Investigation.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- The role of fragrance and self-esteem in perception of body odors and impressions of others.PloS one · 2021Article
- Body odours as a chemosignal in the mother-child relationship: new insights based on an human leucocyte antigen-genotyped family cohort.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Children's Body Odors: Hints to the Development Status.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Sampling, identification and sensory evaluation of odors of a newborn baby's head and amniotic fluid.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionInfant body odor is subjectively pleasant to parents and activates reward areas in the brain. Hence, body odor perception might contribute to parental bonding. However, it is unknown whether the perceived pleasantness of children's body odor varies over the course of a child's development.
methodsTwo hundred and thirty-five parents (
resultsOdor pleasantness was found to decrease as a function of children's age. Neither sex of the parent nor sex of the child contributed significantly to this effect.
conclusionsWe propose that the effect of age-related changes on personal odor pleasantness reflects olfactory modulation of parental-child relationships. IMPLICATIONS: Our study suggests that perception of young children's personal odor as pleasant may contribute to bonding and thereby caretaking, which is needed to a lesser degree after puberty than before.
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