Olfactory Performance Is Predicted by Individual Sex-Atypicality, but Not Sexual Orientation

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11240/13:10144059 RIV/00216208:11620/13:10144059

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0080234" target="_blank" >http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0080234</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080234" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0080234</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Olfactory Performance Is Predicted by Individual Sex-Atypicality, but Not Sexual Orientation

Original language description

Many previous studies have reported robust sex differences in olfactory perception. However, both men and women can be expected to vary in the degree to which they exhibit olfactory performance considered typical of their own or the opposite sex. Sex-atypicality is often described in terms of childhood gender nonconformity, which, however, is not a perfect correlate of non-heterosexual orientation. Here we explored intrasexual variability in psychophysical olfactory performance in a sample of 156 individuals (83 non-heterosexual) and found the lowest odor identification scores in heterosexual men. However, when childhood gender nonconformity was entered in the model along with sexual orientation, better odor identification scores were exhibited by gender-nonconforming men, and greater olfactory sensitivity by gender-conforming women, irrespective of their sexual orientation. Thus, sex-atypicality, but not sexual orientation predicts olfactory performance, and we propose that this might

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-16959P" target="_blank" >GP13-16959P: Possible Influence of Relationship Hierarchy on The Level of Homogamy in Same-Sex Relationships and Mate Preferences (A Cross-Cultural Study)</a><br>

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000327162900069

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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