ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Body odours as a chemosignal in the mother-child relationship: new insights based on an human leucocyte antigen-genotyped family cohort.
Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2020. 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 15 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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- The scent of cuteness-neural signatures of infant body odors.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Body odor samples from infants and post-pubertal children differ in their volatile profiles.Communications chemistry · 2024Article
- There is chemistry in social chemistry.Science advances · 2022Article
- Body Odours Sampled at Different Body Sites in Infants and Mothers-A Comparison of Olfactory Perception.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- The social odor scale: Development and initial validation of a new scale for the assessment of social odor awareness.PloS one · 2021Article
- Olfaction in the Multisensory Processing of Faces: A Narrative Review of the Influence of Human Body Odors.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The importance of the olfactory system in human well-being, through nutrition and social behavior.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- Human olfactory communication: current challenges and future prospects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Interdisciplinary challenges for elucidating human olfactory attractiveness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Children's Body Odors: Hints to the Development Status.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Mothers are able to identify the body odour (BO) of their own child and prefer this smell above other BOs. It has hence been assumed that the infantile BO functions as a chemosignal promoting targeted parental care. We tested this hypothesis and examined whether children's BOs signal genetic similarity and developmental status to mothers. In addition, we assessed whether BOs facilitate inbreeding avoidance (Westermarck effect). In a cross-sectional design,
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