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Unraveling the universality of chemical fear communication: evidence from behavioral, genetic, and chemical analyses.
Chemical senses - 1 Jan 2023
de Groot Jasper H B, Haertl Tobias, Loos Helene M, Bachmann Christin, Kontouli Athanasia, Smeets Monique A M
Abstract excerpt
Abundant evidence indicates that humans can communicate threat-related information to conspecifics through their body odors. However, prior research has been primarily conducted on Western (WEIRD) samples. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether threat-related information can be transmitted by individuals of East Asian descent who carry a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) 538G → A in the ABCC11 gene,...
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