He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate choice contexts

Abstract

Men and women differ in the importance that they ascribe to the characters of a potential mate. Previous work has shown that women rate olfactory cues as more important than men in mate choice.

Keywords

• human
• perception
• smell
• mate choice
• gender
• sex differences
• olfaction
• body odor
• sex-differences
• women
• odor
• olfaction
• attractiveness
• selection
• criteria
• gender
• men