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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
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。
更新日期:2017-06-27
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。