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

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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, Agnieszka; Pietrowski, Diana; Schäfer, Laura; Kromer, Jana; Schmidt, Alexander H.; Sauter, Jürgen; Hummel, Thomas & Croy, Ilona
  
• (2019). Mother-child bonding is associated with the maternal perception of the child's body odor. Physiology & behavior, 198, 151-157
  Croy, Ilona; Mohr, Theresa; Weidner, Kerstin; Hummel, Thomas & Junge-Hoffmeister, Juliane
  
• (2019). Sexual desire after olfactory loss: Quantitative and qualitative reports of patients with smell disorders. Physiology & behavior, 201, 64-69
  Schäfer, Laura; Mehler, Linda; Hähner, Antje; Walliczek, Ute; Hummel, Thomas & Croy, Ilona
  
• (2019). The design matters: How to detect neural correlates of baby body odors. Frontiers in neurology, 9, 1182
  Schäfer, Laura; Hummel, Thomas & Croy, Ilona
  
• (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, Laura; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Sauter, Jürgen; Schmidt, Alexander H. & Croy, Ilona
  
• (2020). Children’s Body Odors: Hints to the Development Status. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 320
  Schäfer, Laura; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Weidner, Kerstin & Croy, Ilona