Losing stinks! The effect of competition outcome on body odour quality
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F20%3A43920248" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/20:43920248 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/20:10411025 RIV/00216208:11510/20:10411025
Result on the web
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0267" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0267</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0267" target="_blank" >10.1098/rstb.2019.0267</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Losing stinks! The effect of competition outcome on body odour quality
Original language description
Dominance hierarchy is often established via repeated agonistic encounters where consistent winners are considered dominant. Human body odour contains cues to psychological dominance and competition, but it is not known whether competition outcome (a marker of a change in dominance hierarchy) affects the hedonic quality of human axillary odour. Therefore, we investigated the effect of winning and losing on odour quality. We collected odour samples from Mixed Martial Arts fighters approximately 1 h before and immediately after a match. Raters then assessed samples for pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity. We also obtained data on donors' affective state and cortisol and testosterone levels, since these are known to be associated with competition and body odour quality. Perceived body odour pleasantness, attractiveness and intensity significantly decreased while masculinity increased after a match irrespective of the outcome. Nonetheless, losing a match affected the pleasantness of body odour more profoundly, though bordering formal level of significance. Moreover, a path analysis revealed that match loss led to a decrease in odour attractiveness, which was mediated by participants' negative affective states. Our study suggests that physical competition and to some extent also its outcome affect the perceived quality of human body odour in specific real-life settings, thus providing cues to dominance-related characteristics. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Olfactory communication in humans'.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30105 - Physiology (including cytology)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LO1611" target="_blank" >LO1611: Sustainability for The National Institute of Mental Health</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
ISSN
0962-8436
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
375
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1800
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
"'Article Number: 20190267'"
UT code for WoS article
000528888100005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085153053