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Chemical Senses Vol. 29 No. 9 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
Positive Emotional Priming of Facial Affect Perception in Females is Diminished by Chemosensory Anxiety Signals
Bettina M. Pause, Anne Ohrt, Alexander Prehn and Roman Ferstl

Institute of Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Correspondence to be sent to: Bettina M. Pause, Institute of Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Olshausenstr. 62, 24098 Kiel, Germany. e-mail: bmpause@psychologie.uni-kiel.de

Chemosensory communication of anxiety is a common phenomenon in vertebrates and improves perceptual and responsive behaviour in the perceiver in order to optimize ontogenetic survival. A few rating studies reported a similar phenomenon in humans. Here, we investigated whether subliminal face perception changes in the context of chemosensory anxiety signals. Axillary sweat samples were ta"