Individual variation in affective responses to taste stimuli

Abstract

Initial experiments on hedonic responses to the taste of sodium-chloride solutions showed that three Ss distinctly liked and five Ss distinctly disliked increasing concentrations. A paired-preference presentation of the same concentrations of sodium chloride resulted in almost identical conclusions for the same Ss, but not with solutions of monosodium glutamate. A second group of 29 Ss demonstrated three hedonic distributions to increasing concentrations of sodium chloride and of sucrose-increased dislike, increased liking, or an increase followed by a distinct reduction.