An Analysis of Individual Differences in Olfactory Thresholds

1 June 1957

journal article
research article
Published by University of Illinois Press in The American Journal of Psychology

Vol. 70 (2) , 227-232
https://doi.org/10.2307/1419325

Abstract

A factor analysis of absolute olfactory thresholds for 20 substances obtained from 80 Os yielded 4 group factors which "were further analyzed to determine an appreciable general factor." The 4 group-factors cannot readily be interpreted in terms of the chemical and physical properties of the stimuli. "The results imply that (a) individual differences in olfactory thresholds are systematic; (b) there are probably many varieties of receptor; and (c) the results correspond to no existing scheme of odor-classification".

Keywords

SMELL

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1955