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Inter- and Intra-Species Communication of Emotion: Chemosignals as the Neglected Medium.
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- A quasi-randomised pilot study on the efficacy and perceived usefulness of adding chemosignals to mindfulness practice for women with social anxiety.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Human-socialized dogs and wolves show similar behavioural reactions to human fear odour.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Invisible attitudes have visible effects on the behaviour of animals in scientific studies.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Dogs (Canis familiaris) distinguish conspecific emotional chemosignals.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Prejudice, Proxemic Space, and Social Odor: The Representation of the 'Outsider' Through an Evolutionary Metaverse Psychology Perspective.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Differences in dogs' and wolves' human-directed greeting behaviour: facial expressions, body language, and the problem of human biases.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Emotional contagion of fear and joy from humans to horses using a combination of facial and vocal cues.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Not just avoidance: dogs show subtle individual differences in reacting to human fear chemosignals.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Emotion perception through the nose: how olfactory emotional cues modulate the perception of neutral facial expressions in affective disorders.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- The odour of an unfamiliar stressed or relaxed person affects dogs' responses to a cognitive bias test.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- When are puppies receptive to emotion-induced human chemosignals? The cases of fear and happiness.Animal cognition · 2023Observational
- Horses discriminate human body odors between fear and joy contexts in a habituation-discrimination protocol.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Alexithymia modulates the attitudes towards odors but not the olfactory abilities or the affective reactions to odors.PloS one · 2023Article
- Acoustic signal dominance in the multimodal communication of a nocturnal mammal.Current zoology · 2022Article
- Reply to Semin et al. Can Humans Discriminate Horse 'Fear' Chemosignals from Control Chemosignals? Comment on "Sabiniewicz et al. A Preliminary Investigation of Interspecific Chemosensory Communication of Emotions: Can Humans (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Can Humans Discriminate Horse 'Fear' Chemosignals from Control Chemosignals? Comment on Sabiniewicz et al. A Preliminary Investigation of Interspecific Chemosensory Communication of Emotions: Can Humans (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Heightened emotion processing as a compensatory mechanism in persons with Alzheimer's disease: Psychological insights from the tri-network model.Frontiers in dementia · 2022Review
- Integrative Model of Human-Animal Interactions: A One Health-One Welfare Systemic Approach to Studying HAI.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- A Preliminary Investigation of Interspecific Chemosensory Communication of Emotions: Can Humans (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Human body odors contain chemosignals that make species-specific communication possible. Such communication is without communicative intent and is generally below the threshold of consciousness. Human recipients of these chemosignals produced during emotional conditions display a simulacrum of the emotional state under which the chemosignal was produced. The investigation of an inter-species transfer of emotions via chemosignals was initiated by considerations of the historically anchored interdependence between humans and domesticated species, such as dogs and horses. Indeed, experiments with dogs have demonstrated that human body odors produced under emotional conditions of happiness and fear led dogs to manifest corresponding emotions to those experienced by humans. Preliminary data from horses also show that human body odors collected under fear and happiness conditions activate the autonomic nervous system of horses differentially. These studies indicate the possibility of a road to open our understanding of inter-species emotional communication via chemosignals.
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