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Chemosensory Communication of Gender through Two Human Steroids in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner
Zhou, Wen1; Yang, Xiaoying1; Chen, Kepu1; Cai, Peng1; He, Sheng2,3; Jiang, Yi1,2
摘要Recent studies have suggested the existence of human sex pheromones, with particular interest in two human steroids: androstadienone (androsta-4,16,-dien-3-one) and estratetraenol (estra-1,3,5(10),16-tetraen-3-ol). The current study takes a critical step to test the qualification of the two steroids as sex pheromones by examining whether they communicate gender information in a sex-specific manner. By using dynamic point-light displays that portray the gaits of walkers whose gender is digitally morphed from male to female [1, 2], we show that smelling androstadienone systematically biases heterosexual females, but not males, toward perceiving the walkers as more masculine. By contrast, smelling estratetraenol systematically biases heterosexual males, but not females, toward perceiving the walkers as more feminine. Homosexual males exhibit a response pattern akin to that of heterosexual females, whereas bisexual or homosexual females fall in between heterosexual males and females. These effects are obtained despite that the olfactory stimuli are not explicitly discriminable. The results provide the first direct evidence that the two human steroids communicate opposite gender information that is differentially effective to the two sex groups based on their sexual orientation. Moreover, they demonstrate that human visual gender perception draws on subconscious chemosensory biological cues, an effect that has been hitherto unsuspected.
2014-05-19
语种英语
发表期刊CURRENT BIOLOGY
ISSN0960-9822
卷号24期号:10页码:1091-1095
期刊论文类型Article
收录类别SCI
WOS记录号WOS:000336340000031
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条目标识符http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13453
专题中国科学院心理健康重点实验室
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
2.State Key Lab Brain & Cognit Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
3.Univ Minnesota, Dept Psychol, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
第一作者单位中国科学院心理健康重点实验室
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Zhou, Wen,Yang, Xiaoying,Chen, Kepu,et al. Chemosensory Communication of Gender through Two Human Steroids in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner[J]. CURRENT BIOLOGY,2014,24(10):1091-1095.
APA Zhou, Wen,Yang, Xiaoying,Chen, Kepu,Cai, Peng,He, Sheng,&Jiang, Yi.(2014).Chemosensory Communication of Gender through Two Human Steroids in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner.CURRENT BIOLOGY,24(10),1091-1095.
MLA Zhou, Wen,et al."Chemosensory Communication of Gender through Two Human Steroids in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner".CURRENT BIOLOGY 24.10(2014):1091-1095.
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