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Publications:

Allen, C., Havlíček, J., & Roberts, S. C. (2019). The Effects of Artificial Fragrances on Human Olfactory Communication. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14 (pp. 107-117). Springer, Cham.

Allen C, Cobey K.D., Havlicek J, Singleton F.P., Hahn A.C., Moran C.N., Roberts S.C. (2019) Preparation for fatherhood: A role for olfactory communication during human pregnancy?. Physiology and Behavior, 206, 175-180.

Allen C., & Nettle D. (2019) Hunger and socioeconomic background additively predict impulsivity in humans.Current Psychology, Epub ahead of print.

Allen, C., Havlíček, J., Williams, K., & Roberts, S. C. (2018). Perfume experts' perceptions of body odors: Toward a new lexicon for body odor description. Journal of Sensory Studies.

Allen, C. (2017). A Highland fling to remember: A short report on the XXIII biennial congress on Human Ethology in Stirling, Scotland. Human Ethology Bulletin, 32(1), pages 1-5.

Allen, C., Cobey, K. D., Havlíček, J., & Roberts, S. C. (2016). The impact of artificial fragrances on the assessment of mate quality cues in body odor. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(6), 481–489.

Allen, C., Havlíček, J., & Roberts, S. C. (2015). Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odor. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1115.

I have peer reviewed manuscripts for journals including:

Evolution and Human Behavior

Chemosensory Perception

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Appetite

Chemosensory Perception

I am an Associate Editor for Human Ethology.

 

Selected conferences, invited talks, and awards:

August 2017 - Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (Broadening our Horizons scheme, £775) to give oral presentation titled: ‘Investigating the artificially scented ape: the impact of artificial fragrances on human olfactory communication’. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, Cardiff.

May 2017 - CBE seminar titled: ‘Hunger, cognition and early life adversity’, Newcastle University.

 

Apr 2017 - Invited seminar at the National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic, titled: ‘Hunger, cognition and early life adversity’. 

Invited seminar at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, titled: ‘I wanna make you sweat: a comparison of methods for odour collection’

Nov 2016 - CBE seminar titled: ‘The artificially scented ape: Investigating the role of fragrance and body odour in human interactions’, Newcastle University.

 

Apr 2016 - European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, London. Accepted poster presentation titled:'Perfumers' perceptions of body odours: towards a new scale for odour description.

 

Mar 2016 - Invited by Dr Christopher Watkins to give a departmental seminar at the University of Abertay, Dundee, titled: ‘The artificially scented ape: Investigating the role of fragrances and body odours in human interactions’.

 

Nov 2015 - Behaviour and Evolution Research group meeting at the University of Stirling titled: ‘Perfumers' perceptions of body odours: a new scale for odour description’.

 

July 2015 - Invited to attend the UK Semiochemistry Network, Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, British Workshop XXII, and present a talk titled: ‘Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odour’.

 

May 2015 - Plenary speaker at the British Society of Perfumers annual symposium (Fragrance choice and individual differences). Northampton, UK.

 

May 2015 - ISHE summer institute, Athens, Greece. Won the Institute poster competition with a poster titled: ‘Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odour’.

Apr 2014 - European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Bristol, UK. Attendance was supported by an EHBEA student bursary (EUR 100).

Apr 2012 - Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society in Hull, UK. Presented a poster entitled: ‘Should doctors run to crash calls? The effects of exercise on cognition’

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