Postpartum factors related to mother's attraction to newborn infant odors Academic Article

abstract

• Hedonic responses to a variety of infant (general body, urine, and feces) and noninfant (lotion, cheese, and spice) odorants were compared in four groups of subjects: new mothers, mothers a 1-month postpartum, and female and male nonparents. Using standard scaling procedures, subjects rated each of the odorants twice on a scale from extremely unpleasant (-20.5) to extremely pleasant (+20.5). In addition, all subjects completed a set of attitude questionnaires, and mothers also answered a childbirth questionnaire and were observed while feeding their infants.

authors

• Fleming, Alison S
• Corter, Carl
• Franks, Patr cia
• Surbey, Michelle
• Schneider, Bruce
• Steiner, Meir

status

• published 

publication date

• March 1993

has subject area

• 1701 Psychology (FoR)
• 1702 Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Adult (MeSH)
• Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology (Science Metrix)
• Female (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Infant, Newborn (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Maternal Behavior (MeSH)
• Odorants (MeSH)
• Postpartum Period (MeSH)
• Smell (MeSH)
• Surveys and Questionnaires (MeSH)

published in

• Developmental Psychobiology  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Female
• Humans
• Infant, Newborn
• Male
• Maternal Behavior
• Odorants
• Postpartum Period
• Smell
• Surveys and Questionnaires

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/dev.420260204

PubMed ID

• 8467961

start page

• 115

end page

• 132

volume

• 26

issue

• 2