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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.
Chemosensory Perception ( IF 1 ) Pub Date : 2017-06-27 , DOI: 10.1007/s12078-017-9230-x
Ilona Croy 1 , Tomasz Frackowiak 2 , Thomas Hummel 3 , Agnieszka Sorokowska 1, 2
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Introduction

Infant 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.

Methods

Two hundred and thirty-five parents (M = 36.9 years, SD = 7.3) were asked to assess the personal odor pleasantness of their children (N = 367; M = 9.3 years, SD = 6.4).

Results

Odor 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.

Conclusions

We 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.


中文翻译:

婴儿对父母闻起来很香,青少年却不对:波兰样本中儿童年龄和个人气味等级的调查问卷研究。

介绍

婴儿的体味主观上让父母感到愉悦,并激活了大脑中的奖励区域。因此,体味感知可能有助于父母之间的联系。然而,未知的是,在儿童成长过程中,儿童体味的愉悦感是否有所不同。

方法

235名父母(M  = 36.9岁,SD  = 7.3)被要求评估孩子的个人气味(N  = 367;M  = 9.3岁,SD  = 6.4)。

结果

发现气味的愉快程度随着儿童年龄的增长而降低。父母的性别和孩子的性别都没有显着影响这一效果。

结论

我们建议与年龄有关的变化对个人气味的愉悦感反映了亲子关系的嗅觉调节。

含义

我们的研究表明,将幼儿的个人气味感知为愉悦感可能会促进彼此的结合,从而产生照顾感,这在青春期后比以前需要的程度要少。
更新日期:2017-06-27
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