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Body odour disgust sensitivity is associated with xenophobia: evidence from nine countries across five continents

Marta Z Zakrzewska1, Sandra Challma2, Torun Lindholm2

  • 1Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 17 177 Solna, Sweden.

Royal Society Open Science
|April 17, 2023
PubMed

Keywords:
body odour disgust sensitivitydisease avoidancedisgustolfactionprejudicexenophobia

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