The impact of body odor on bonding and incest avoidance over the course of life: a developmental and neuropsychological approach

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Ilona Croy
• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Developmental Neurobiology ; Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 316678213

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• (2018). Human Leukocyte Antigen similarity decreases partners' and strangers' body odor attractiveness for women not using hormonal contraception. Hormones and behavior, 106, 144-149
  Sorokowska, A., Pietrowski, D., Schäfer, L., Kromer, J., Schmidt, A. H., Sauter, J., ... & Croy, I.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.10.007)
• (2019). Mother-child bonding is associated with the maternal perception of the child's body odor. Physiology & behavior, 198, 151-157
  Croy, I., Mohr, T., Weidner, K., Hummel, T., & Junge-Hoffmeister, J.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.09.014)
• (2019). Sexual desire after olfactory loss: Quantitative and qualitative reports of patients with smell disorders. Physiology & behavior, 201, 64-69
  Schäfer, L., Mehler, L., Hähner, A., Walliczek, U., Hummel, T., & Croy, I.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.12.020)
• (2019). The design matters: How to detect neural correlates of baby body odors. Frontiers in neurology, 9, 1182
  Schäfer, L., Hummel, T., & Croy, I.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.01182)
• (2020). Body odours as a chemosignal in the mother–child relationship: new insights based on an human leucocyte antigen-genotyped family cohort. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1800), 20190266
  Schäfer, L., Sorokowska, A., Sauter, J., Schmidt, A. H., & Croy, I.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0266)
• (2020). Children’s Body Odors: Hints to the Development Status. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 320
  Schäfer, L., Sorokowska, A., Weidner, K., & Croy, I.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00320)