香り提示により生じる感情における主観および客観的評価

抄録

The olfactory brain that controls olfaction overlaps with the emotional brain that controls emotions, and is thought to have contributed greatly to the development of the emotional brain. Therefore, the sense of smell is considered to be more connected to emotions than other senses, and attention has been focused on manipulating the psychological state to a desirable state by using scent. However, it is thought that there is a gender difference in aroma. According to Oloveira et al., Women have a large number of neurons and neurons in the olfactory bulb, which play the role of receiving olfactory information, and women are superior in the smell separation test (1). Other studies have found that repeated exposure to odors increased olfactory sensitivity only in postpubertal women. From the previous case, it is considered that there is a gender difference in the intensity and type of emotion that occurs even when the same scent is presented. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to clarify the gender difference of psychological changes caused by scents.