Fig 1.
Flow-chart of participant selection and procedure of the sender study.
Fig 2.
Visualization of the procedure for the perceiver study.
Table 1.
Sensitivity values (d’) and summary statistics for discrimination between sweat from low and high self-esteem sender participants.
Table 2.
Summary statistics for perceivers’ (n = 62) body odor ratings of pleasantness, intensity, familiarity, with and without fragrance.
Fig 3.
Ratings for self-esteem, attractiveness and extraversion, under different stimulus conditions (sweat from low and high self-esteem donors, without and with fragrance).
There was a main effect of fragrance (denoted by an asterisks) for ratings of self-esteem and attractiveness, no other differences were significant. NB: Box-and-whisker plots display the median and 1st and 3rd quartiles ranges, and whiskers indicate range of the data. Diamonds denote individual data points. Perceiver participants rated videos that portrayed males (i.e., dating show contestants) who were not the sender participants (see the Psychological Judgments paragraph in the Methods section).