The social odor scale: Development and initial validation of a new scale for the assessment of social odor awareness

Elisa Dal Bò, Claudio Gentili, Andrea Spoto, Giovanni Bruno, Andrea Castellani, Carmen Tripodi, Florian Ph S Fischmeister and Cinzia Cecchetto

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: The degree of attention individuals pay to olfactory cues (called odor awareness) influences the role of odors in everyday life. Particularly, odors produced by the human body (i.e., social odors) are able to carry a wide variety of information and to elicit a broad spectrum of emotional reactions, making them essential in interpersonal relationships. Hence, despite the assessment of awareness toward social odors is crucial, a proper tool is still lacking. Here, we designed and initially validated the Social Odor Scale (SOS), a 12-item scale designed to measure the individual differences in awareness towards different social odors. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA; KMO test: MSA = 0.78; Bartlett’s test: χ2(78) = 631.34, p

Date: 2021
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