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Sweating it out: The influence of sex and emotions on human sweat production
Gomes, Nuno; Benrós, Miguel F.; Martins, Jorge S.; Semin, Gün R.; Semin, Gün Refik; Gomes, NunoHuman sweat conveys a wealth of information about its donors, including their emotional state at the time of release. While extensive research has examined the communicative potential of human sweat, the mechanisms underlying emotional sweat production remain underexplored. This study employed a data-driven approach with a large sample of sweat donors (N = 334; most participants were university students) to inv...
How priming with body odors affects decision speeds in consumer behavior
Alcañiz, Mariano; Chicchi Giglioli, Irene Alice; Carrasco Ribelles, Lucía Amalia; Minissi, Maria Eleonora; Gil-Lopez, Cristina; Semin, Gün R.To date, odor research has primarily focused on the behavioral efects of common odors on consumer perception and choices. We report a study that examines, for the frst time, the efects of human body odor cues on consumer purchase behaviors. The infuence of human chemosignals produced in three conditions, namely happiness, fear, a relaxed condition (rest), and a control condition (no odor), were examined on will...
A multi‐analyses approach of inductive/deductive asymmetry in the affective pri...
Foroni, Francesco; Marmolejo‐Ramos, Fernando; Wilcox, Rand; de Bastiani, Fernanda; Semin, Gün R.Rapidly evaluating our environment's beneficial and detrimental features is critical for our successful functioning. A classic paradigm used to investigate such fast and automatic evaluations is the affective priming (AP) paradigm, where participants classify valenced target stimuli (e.g., words) as good or bad while ignoring the valenced primes (e.g., words). We investigate the differential impact that verbs a...
When are puppies receptive to emotion-induced human chemosignals? The cases of ...
D'ANIELLO, BIAGIO; Pinelli, Claudia; Scandurra, Anna; Di Lucrezia, Alfredo; Aria, Massimo; Semin, Gün R.We report an observational, double-blind, experimental study that examines the efects of human emotional odors on puppies between 3 and 6 months and adult dogs (one year and upwards). Both groups were exposed to control, human fear, and happiness odors in a between subjects’ design. The duration of all behaviors directed to the apparatus, the door, the owner, a stranger, and stress behaviors was recorded. A dis...
Validation of the open biological negative image set for a Portuguese populatio...
Gomes, Nuno; Benrós, Miguel F.; Semin, Gün R.Recently, Shirai and Watanabe Royal Society Open Science, 9(1), 211128 (2022) developed OBNIS (Open Biological Negative Image Set), a comprehensive database containing images (primarily animals but also fruits, mushrooms, and vegetables) that visually elicit disgust, fear, or neither. OBNIS was initially validated for a Japanese population. In this article, we validated the color version of OBNIS for a Portugue...
Investigating inattentional blindness through the lens of fear chemosignals
Semin, Gün R.; DePhillips, Michael; Gomes, NunoInattentional blindness is a phenomenon wherein people fail to perceive obvious stimuli within their vision, sometimes leading to dramatic consequences. Research on the effects of fear chemosignals suggests that they facilitate receivers’ sensory acquisition. We aimed to examine the interplay between these phenomena, investigating whether exposure to fear chemosignals (vs. rest body odors) can reduce the inatte...
Can Humans Discriminate Horse ‘Fear’ Chemosignals from Control Chemosignals? Co...
Semin, Gün R.; Gomes, Nuno; D'Aniello, Biagio; Sabiniewicz, AgnieszkaWe illustrate the problematic nature of different assumptions guiding the examination of whether humans can detect the source of fear chemosignals (i.e., body odors) emitted by horses—a research question examined in an article recently published in Animals. A central issue is that the formulation of the question itself contains the answer to it. In this paper, we parse the problematic assumptions on which the a...
Puppies in the problem-solving paradigm: quick males and social females
Pinelli, Claudia; Scandurra, Anna; Di Lucrezia, Alfredo; Aria, Massimo; Semin, Gün R.; D'ANIELLO, BIAGIOWe report an observational, double-blind study that examined puppies’ behaviors while engaged in solving an experimental food retrieval task (food retrieval task instrument: FRTI). The experimental setting included passive social distractors (i.e., the dog’s owner and a stranger). The focus was on how the social and physical environment shapes puppies’ behaviors according to sex. The dependent variables were th...
The spatial grounding of politics
Garrido, Margarida V.; Farias, Ana R.; Horchak, Oleksandr; Semin, Gün R.In three studies, we advance the research on the association between abstract concepts and spatial dimensions by examining the spatial anchoring of political categories in three different paradigms (spatial placement, memory, and classification) and using non-linguistic stimuli (i.e., photos of politicians). The general hypothesis that politicians of a conservative or socialist party are grounded spatially was ...
Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosigna...
D'ANIELLO, BIAGIO; Fierro, Barbara; Scandurra, Anna; Pinelli, Claudia; Aria, Massimo; Semin, Gün R.This research focuses on sex differences in the behavioral patterns of dogs when they are exposed to human chemosignals (sweat) produced in happy and fear contexts. No age, breed or apparatus-directed behavior differences were found. However, when exposed to fear chemosignals, dogs' behavior towards their owners, and their stress signals lasted longer when compared to being exposed to happiness as well as contr...