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A standardized lexicon of body odor words crafted from 17 countries
AL. Bierling, A. Croy, F. Bilem, L. Bloy, FY. Ho, AF. Jimenez, P. Kyjaková, M. Mastinu, N. Power Guerra, U. Sailer, A. Schirmer, EC. Silva, V. Surakka, L. Takau, E. Thunell, K. Verma, BR. Żyżelewicz, A. Majid, I. Croy
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- MeSH
- Smell MeSH
- Language MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Nonverbal Communication * MeSH
- Odorants * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Dataset MeSH
Body odors offer a unique window into the physiological and psychological profile of the emitter. This information, broadcast in nonverbal communication, significantly shapes social interactions. However, effectively digitizing body odors requires a precise framework for perceptual operationalization. Previous research has used a very limited number of verbal terms, such as pleasant, intense, or attractive, which fails to adequately capture qualitative differences. To address this gap, we elicited body odor descriptions from 2,607 participants across 17 countries and 13 languages. All these descriptions are presented here in one dataset, together with a condensed list of 25 body odor words (BOW). Those terms reliably differentiated between body states, and were validated in a separate study with a different group of 155 perceivers. The dataset, available as a web application, provides a novel operationalization of body odor impressions, which is a precondition for studying olfaction in human nonverbal communication, for perception-based digitization of body odors and for comparative studies.
Centre for the Study of Labour and Human Factors University of Valparaíso Valparaíso Chile
Department of Clinical Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet Stockholm Sweden
Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford Oxford UK
Department of Psychology Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel
Department of Psychology The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences Tampere University Tampere Finland
German Center for Mental Health site Halle Jena Magdeburg Halle Jena Magdeburg Germany
Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Psychiatry University of Calgary Calgary Canada
Institute for Materials Science Technische Universität Dresden Dresden Germany
Institute of Physical Chemistry Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Jena Germany
Institute of Psychology University of Wroclaw Wroclaw Poland
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig Germany
School of Business Administration Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel
School of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Indore Indore India
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry Western University London ON Canada
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