Authors: Wen Zhouemail, Xiaoying Yang, Kepu Chen, Peng Cai, Sheng He, Yi Jiang Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Publication date: May 01, 2014
In short: 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.
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