SMELLING MALE SEX HORMON-LIKE STEROIDS ALTERS THE PERCEIVED GENDER OF A FACE

• Authors: Zsadanyi-Nagy Zsanett , Kovacs Gyula
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Recently more and more studies test the interactions between the visual and olfactory systems. In their present paper the authors studied the effect of an odorous male gender specific sex-hormone - like steroid (5-alpha-androgenst-16-en-3-one) on face perception of healthy adult males in a two-alternative forced-choice gender discrimination task. According to their results subjects judge a particular face significantly more male when inhaling the steroid, than in the control condition. The authors' experiments illustrate that the olfactory presentation of sex-hormone - like steroids can alter the sexual discrimination of faces in a symmetric way, consequently there is a close interaction between olfactory and visual modalities, and this relationship manifests on socially important odorous substances and human faces.

Keywords

EN

GENDER DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY; TESTOSTERONE

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 181-191
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zsadanyi-Nagy Zsanett

author

Kovacs Gyula

• Zsanett Zsadanyi-Nagy, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA07398