Global study of social odor awareness

• Autores: Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Groyecka, Agata; Karwowski, Maciej; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh; Alghraibeh, Ahmad M.; Aryeetey, Richmond; Bertoni, Anna; Bettache, Karim; Blumen, Sheyla; Blazejewska, Marta; Bortolini, Tiago; Butovskaya, Marina; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Castro, Felipe Nalon; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin Bin; Cunha, Diana; David, Daniel; David, Oana A.; Dileym, Fahd A.; Espinosa, Alejandra Del Carmen Domínguez; Donato, Silvia; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Fialová, Jitka; Fisher, Maryanne; Razumiejczyk, Eugenia
• Año de publicación: 2018
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: CULTURE; ODOR AWARENESS; OLFACTION; SMELL
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Olfaction plays an important role in human social communication, including multiple domains in which people often rely on their sense of smell in the social context. The importance of the sense of smell and its role can however vary inter-individually and culturally. Despite the growing body of literature on differences in olfactory performance or hedonic preferences across the globe, the aspects of a given culture as well as culturally universal individual differences affecting odor awareness in human social life remain unknown. Here, we conducted a large-scale analysis of data collected from 10 794 participants from 52 study sites from 44 countries all over the world. The aim of our research was to explore the potential individual and country-level correlates of odor awareness in the social context. The results show that the individual characteristics were more strongly related than country-level factors to self-reported odor awareness in different social contexts. A model including individual-level predictors (gender, age, material situation, education, and preferred social distance) provided a relatively good fit to the data, but adding country-level predictors (Human Development Index, population density, and average temperature) did not improve model parameters. Although there were some cross-cultural differences in social odor awareness, the main differentiating role was played by the individual differences. This suggests that people living in different cultures and different climate conditions may still share some similar patterns of odor awareness if they share other individual-level characteristics.
Fil: Sorokowska, Agnieszka. University Of Wroclaw; Polonia
Fil: Groyecka, Agata. University Of Wroclaw; Polonia
Fil: Karwowski, Maciej. University Of Wroclaw; Polonia
Fil: Frackowiak, Tomasz. University Of Wroclaw; Polonia
Fil: Lansford, Jennifer E.. University of Duke; Estados Unidos
Fil: Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh. Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences; Irán
Fil: Alghraibeh, Ahmad M.. King Saud University; Arabia Saudita
Fil: Aryeetey, Richmond. University of Ghana; Ghana
Fil: Bertoni, Anna. Catholic University of Milan; Italia
Fil: Bettache, Karim. Monash University; Malasia
Fil: Blumen, Sheyla. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú; Perú
Fil: Blazejewska, Marta. University of Wroclaw; Polonia
Fil: Bortolini, Tiago. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil. Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino; Brasil
Fil: Butovskaya, Marina. Academia de Ciencias de Rusia; Rusia. Universidad Nacional de Investigación; Rusia
Fil: Cantarero, Katarzyna. University of Social Sciences and Humanities; Polonia
Fil: Castro, Felipe Nalon. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil
Fil: Cetinkaya, Hakan. Ankara University; Turquía
Fil: Chang, Lei. University of Macau; China
Fil: Chen, Bin Bin. Fudan University; China
Fil: Cunha, Diana. Universidad de Coimbra; Portugal
Fil: David, Daniel. Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca; Rumania
Fil: David, Oana A.. Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca; Rumania
Fil: Dileym, Fahd A.. King Saud University; Arabia Saudita
Fil: Espinosa, Alejandra Del Carmen Domínguez. Universidad Iberoamericana (ibero); México
Fil: Donato, Silvia. Catholic University of Milan; Italia
Fil: Dronova, Daria. Academia de Ciencias de Rusia; Rusia
Fil: Dural, Seda. Izmir University of Economics; Turquía
Fil: Fialová, Jitka. Karlova Univerzita (cuni); República Checa
Fil: Fisher, Maryanne. Saint Mary's University. School of Environmental Studies; Canadá
Fil: Razumiejczyk, Eugenia. Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos. Instituto de Estudios Sociales. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Estudios Sociales; Argentina