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Does human body odor represent a significant and rewarding social signal to individuals high in social openness?
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 4, p e94314 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Across a wide variety of domains, experts differ from novices in their response to stimuli linked to their respective field of expertise. It is currently unknown whether similar patterns can be observed with regard to social expertise. The current study therefore focuses on social openness, a central social skill necessary to initiate social contact. Human body odors were used as social cues, as they inherently signal the presence of another human being. Using functional MRI, hemodynamic brain responses to body odors of women reporting a high (n = 14) or a low (n = 12) level of social openness were compared. Greater activation within the inferior frontal gyrus and the caudate nucleus was observed in high socially open individuals compared to individuals low in social openness. With the inferior frontal gyrus being a crucial part of the human mirror neuron system, and the caudate nucleus being implicated in social reward, it is discussed whether human body odor might constitute more of a significant and rewarding social signal to individuals high in social openness compared to individuals low in social openness process.
- Subjects :
- Male
Social inhibition
Time Factors
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Human Relations
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
lcsh:Science
Mirror neuron
Human Body
Brain Mapping
Multidisciplinary
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
Experimental Psychology
Social research
Clinical Psychology
Neurology
Female
Sensory Perception
Cues
Cognitive psychology
Research Article
Adult
Adolescent
Social Psychology
Inferior frontal gyrus
Neuroimaging
Biology
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Social skills
Reward
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Openness to experience
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Social Behavior
lcsh:R
Biology and Life Sciences
Social cue
Olfactory Perception
Odorants
lcsh:Q
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....12719377c3f370849fcbdaeb30eba1b3