Beauty Is Mostly in the Eye of the Beholder: Olfactory Versus Visual Cues of Attractiveness
@article{Foster2008BeautyIM,
title={Beauty Is Mostly in the Eye of the Beholder: Olfactory Versus Visual Cues of Attractiveness},
author={J. Foster},
journal={The Journal of Social Psychology},
year={2008},
volume={148},
pages={765 - 774}
}Olfaction is an important determinant of attractiveness, possibly even more so than vision when judgments are made by women. However, research that directly compares these cues using actual stimuli (e.g., t-shirt odors) is lacking. In this study, 44 women rated the attractiveness of t-shirt odors and facial photographs of 21 men either independently (i.e., first rated t-shirts, then rated photographs) or together (i.e., made overall ratings on the basis of t-shirts and photographs presented… CONTINUE READING
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