The smell of cooperativeness: Do human body odours advertise cooperative behaviours?
Several physical features influence the perception of how cooperative a potential partner is. While previous work focused on face and voice, it remains unknown whether body odours influence judgements of cooperativeness and if odour‐based judgements are accurate. Here, we first collected axillary od...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 113; no. 2; pp. 531 - 547 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2022
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