ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Are humans constantly but subconsciously smelling themselves?
Review 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. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Smelling the romantic partner's natural body odor increases psychological and autonomic but not cortisol stress responses.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Why dogs prefer zoomies to zoom and what it tells us about the importance of in-person meetings for learning and memory.Cognitive processing · 2025Article
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- Sniffing of Body Odors and Individual Significance of Olfaction Are Associated with Sexual Desire: A Cross-Cultural Study in China, India, and the USA.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- There is chemistry in social chemistry.Science advances · 2022Article
- Face-touching behaviour as a possible correlate of mask-wearing: A video observational study of public place incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Observational
- The social odor scale: Development and initial validation of a new scale for the assessment of social odor awareness.PloS one · 2021Article
- Human olfactory communication: current challenges and future prospects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Limitations in odour simulation may originate from differential sensory embodiment.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
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
All primates, including humans, engage in self-face-touching at very high frequency. The functional purpose or antecedents of this behaviour remain unclear. In this
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