Romantic love modulates women's identification of men's body odors
Romantic love modulates women's identification of men's body odors
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DOI：
10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.11.009
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Jones-Gotman, Marilyn
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作者：
Lundstroem, Johan N.;Jones-Gotman, Marilyn
浪漫的爱情是我们最强大和最强大的情感之一，但关于起作用的荷尔蒙和心理机制，我们知之甚少。浪漫的爱情被认为有助于亲密伴侣保持对彼此的忠诚，有两种机制被提出来调解这一承诺：增加对伴侣的关注或转移对其他潜在伴侣的注意力。这两种机制都在文献中得到了支持。我们通过评估女性识别来自男友、同性朋友和异性朋友的(ID)体味的能力，以及这种能力与对男友表达的浪漫爱情程度之间的关系，来探索每种机制的潜在影响。我们假设，对伴侣的关注增加会使男友的体臭ID与浪漫爱情程度呈正相关；相反，我们假设注意力从其他潜在伴侣身上转移会使异性朋友的体臭ID与对男友的浪漫爱程度呈负相关。我们的结果支持了偏转理论，因为我们发现受试者对男友的浪漫爱的程度与他们辨别异性朋友的体味的能力之间存在负相关，而不是他们的男朋友或同性朋友的体味。我们的结果表明，浪漫的爱情会把注意力从潜在的新伴侣身上转移开，而不是转移到现在的伴侣身上。这些变化可能是由循环神经肽介导的，并提出了一个可测试的模型。(C)2008 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Romantic love is one of our most potent and powerful emotions, but very little is known with respect to the hormonal and psychological mechanisms in play. Romantic love is thought to help intimate partners stay committed to each other and two mechanisms have been proposed to mediate this commitment: increased attention towards one's partner or deflected attention away from other potential partners. Both mechanisms find support in the literature. We explored the potential influence of each of these mechanisms by assessing women's ability to identify (ID) body odors originating from their boyfriend, a same-sex friend, and an opposite-sex friend and the relationship between this ability and the degree of romantic love expressed towards their boyfriend. We hypothesized that an increase in attention towards one's partner would render a positive correlation between ID of a boyfriend's body odor and degree of romantic love; conversely, we hypothesized that attention deflected away from other potential partners would render a negative correlation between ID of an opposite-sex friend's body odor and degree of romantic love for the boyfriend. Our results supported the deflection theory as we found a negative correlation between the degree of romantic love for the subjects' boyfriends and their ability to ID the body odor of an opposite-sex friend but not of their boyfriend or same-sex friend. Our results indicate that romantic love deflects attention away from potential new partners rather than towards the present partner. These changes are likely mediated by circulating neuropeptides and a testable model is suggested. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.