In recent decades, there has been an explosion of research into the crossmodal influence of
olfactory cues on multisensory person perception. Numerous peer-reviewed studies have …

Many species use chemicals to communicate. In humans, there is increasing evidence that
chemicals conveyed by the body are extremely important in interpersonal relationships …

Humans produce odorous secretions from multiple body sites according to the microbiomic
profile of each area and the types of secretory glands present. Because the axilla is an …

Human sweat odor serves as social communication signal for a person's traits and
emotional states. This study explored whether body odors can also communicate …

Recent work has demonstrated that human body odour alters with changing emotional state
and that emotionally laden odours can affect the physiology and behaviour of people …

When people meet a potential partner for the first time, they are confronted with multiple
sources of information, encompassing different modalities, that they can use to determine …

Human body odor is a unique identity feature of individual as well as an established
composite of numerous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) belonging to significant …

Despite evidence indicating body odor (BO) preference is an important driver in mate
selection, previous studies have only investigated females' preferences for the BO of …

Mate choice, and sex differences in romantic behaviours, represented one of the first major
applications of evolutionary biology to human behaviour. This paper reviews Darwinian …

As humans are evolved animals, we propose a nonanthropocentric framework based on
animal signaling theory to understand the evolutionary foundations of human art, instead of …