Camille Ferdenzi

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Camille Ferdenzi
Post-doctoral Researcher
General Information

My research activities in psychology of olfaction are generally related to social olfaction, developmental aspects of odor perception, and interindividual differences due to gender, culture and environment. Since January 2009, I have been working on a large cross-cultural comparison of the semantic space used to describe odor-elicited emotions. Moreover, I am currently mainly involved in a project on human attractiveness, involving developmental and multimodal approaches (body odor, face, and voice perception).

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I started working in psychology of olfaction in 2001 with a project on a cross-cultural project (Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût, University of Burgundy, Dijon, FR), before doing a PhD on children's odor perception, involving developmental and differential psychology, in the same laboratory. After I graduated in 2007, I had my first postdoctoral experience at the University of Liverpool, UK, in evolutionary psychology, on body odour perception in mate choice and family contexts. My second postdoctoral experience (2009-2010) at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, CH, consisted in investigating cross-cultural differences in odor-related affective feelings. While pursuing this research, my main research activity is focused on developmental and multimodal aspects of human attractiveness.

Selected Publications
Ferdenzi, C., Delplanque, S., Barbosa, P., Court, K., Guinard, J. X., Guo, T., Roberts, S. C., Schirmer, A., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., Grandjean, D. (In Press) Affective semantic space of scents. Towards a universal scale to measure self-reported odor- related feelings.. Food Quality and Preference xx, .
Ferdenzi, C., Patel, S., Mehu-Blantar, I., Khidasheli, M., Sander, D., Delplanque, S. (In Press) Voice attractiveness: Influence of stimulus duration and type. Behavior Research Methods , .
Ferdenzi, C., Roberts, S. C., Schirmer, A., Delplanque, S., Cekic, S., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., Grandjean, D. (2013) Variability of affective responses to odors: Culture, gender and olfactory knowledge. Chemical Senses 38(2), 175-186.
Coppin, G., Sander, D. (In Press) Neuropsychologie affective et Olfaction: Etudier la sensibilité de l'amygdale aux odeurs pour tester les théories de l'émotion [Affective neuropsychology and olfaction: Investigate amygdala sensitivity to smells to test theories of emotion]. Odeurs et émotions [Smells and emotions] , X.
Delplanque, S., Chrea, C., Grandjean, D., Ferdenzi, C., Cayeux, I., Porcherot, C., Le Calvé, B., Sander, D., Scherer, K. R. (2012) How to map the affective semantic space of scents. Cognition and Emotion 26(5), 885-898.
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