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Testing For Individual Differences In The Identification Of Chemosignals For Fear And Happy: Phenotypic Super-Detectors, Detectors And Non-Detectors, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, Terry R. Mcguire, Patricia Wilson
Testing For Individual Differences In The Identification Of Chemosignals For Fear And Happy: Phenotypic Super-Detectors, Detectors And Non-Detectors, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, Terry R. Mcguire, Patricia Wilson
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Mood odor identification, explicit awareness of mood odor, may be an important emotion skill and part of a complex dual processing system. It has already been shown that mood odors have significant implicit effects, effects that occur without awareness. This study applies methods for examining human individual differences in the identification of chemosignals for fear and happy, important in itself, and a key to understanding the dual processing of emotion in the olfactory system. Axillary mood odors had been collected from 14 male donors during a mood induction task. Pads were collected after 12 and 24 minutes, creating two doses. …