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Blindness, But Not HMHA Anosmia, Predicts Loneliness: A Psychophysical Study

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Olfactory deficits can play a detrimental role in everyday social functioning. Perception of 3-hydroxy-3-methylhexanoic acid (HMHA)-a body odor component-could also be linked to this research area. However, no study so far has addressed the problem of HMHA perception in the context of the previously reported relationship between olfactory abilities and social difficulties. Here, we tested whether HMHA-specific anosmia predicted loneliness understood both as a cognitive evaluation of social participation and as one's social isolation, and we additionally analyzed the effects and correlates of HMHA perception in relation to sightedness. The study comprised 196 people, of whom 99 were blind. We found that subjects with blindness declared particularly high loneliness, but HMHA anosmia and the interaction of sightedness and HMHA anosmia predicted neither loneliness nor social withdrawal. In addition, HMHA pleasantness was positively associated with social withdrawal of the subjects with blindness and emotional loneliness correlated with HMHA familiarity regardless of sightedness.
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hal-03432461 , version 1 (17-11-2021)

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Agnieszka Sorokowska, Anna Janczak, Camille Ferdenzi, Nicolas Baldovini, Anna Oleszkiewicz. Blindness, But Not HMHA Anosmia, Predicts Loneliness: A Psychophysical Study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021, pp.014616722110343. ⟨10.1177/01461672211034376⟩. ⟨hal-03432461⟩
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