Humans have evolved various adaptations against pathogens, including the physiological immune system. However, not all of these adaptations are physiological: the cognitive mechanisms whereby we avoid potential sources of pathogens—for example, disgust elicited by uncleanliness—can be considered as parts of a behavioural immune system (BIS). The mechanisms of BIS extend also to inter‐group relations: Pathogen cues have been shown to increase xenophobia/ethnocentrism, as people prefer to keep their societal in‐group norms unaltered and “clean.” Nonetheless, little is known how pathogen cues influence people's willingness to provide humanitarian aid to out‐group members. We examined how pathogen cues affected decisions of providing humanitari...
From evolutionary psychological reasoning, we derived the hypothesis that chronic and contextually a...
The human mind evolved to avoid recurrent threats, one of them being the threat of interpersonal di...
Over the past few decades, researchers have become increasingly interested in the adaptations guidin...
What is the adapted structure of the behavioral immune system? By definition, the behavioral immune ...
Pathogens and parasites posed significant fitness threats to our ancestors. As a consequence of the...
Like many other animals, human beings engage in behavioral defenses against infectious pathogens. Th...
Like many other animals, human beings engage in behavioral defenses against infectious pathogens. Th...
Disease-causing parasites and pathogens play a pivotal role in intergroup behavior. Previous studies...
Infectious disease exerts a large selective pressure on all organisms. One response to this has been...
In order to protect themselves from harmful pathogens, individuals have evolved a behavioral immune ...
The tendency to attend to and avoid cues to pathogens varies across individuals and contexts. Resear...
The tendency to attend to and avoid cues to pathogens varies across individuals and contexts. Resear...
Extending a model relating xenophobia to disease avoidance [Faulkner, J., Schaller, M., Park, J. H.,...
We animals have evolved a variety of mechanisms to avoid conspecifics who might be infected. It is c...
Data and do-files to replicate analyses reported in the paper Aarøe, Osmundsen and Petersen, 2016: "...
From evolutionary psychological reasoning, we derived the hypothesis that chronic and contextually a...
The human mind evolved to avoid recurrent threats, one of them being the threat of interpersonal di...
Over the past few decades, researchers have become increasingly interested in the adaptations guidin...
What is the adapted structure of the behavioral immune system? By definition, the behavioral immune ...
Pathogens and parasites posed significant fitness threats to our ancestors. As a consequence of the...
Like many other animals, human beings engage in behavioral defenses against infectious pathogens. Th...
Like many other animals, human beings engage in behavioral defenses against infectious pathogens. Th...
Disease-causing parasites and pathogens play a pivotal role in intergroup behavior. Previous studies...
Infectious disease exerts a large selective pressure on all organisms. One response to this has been...
In order to protect themselves from harmful pathogens, individuals have evolved a behavioral immune ...
The tendency to attend to and avoid cues to pathogens varies across individuals and contexts. Resear...
The tendency to attend to and avoid cues to pathogens varies across individuals and contexts. Resear...
Extending a model relating xenophobia to disease avoidance [Faulkner, J., Schaller, M., Park, J. H.,...
We animals have evolved a variety of mechanisms to avoid conspecifics who might be infected. It is c...
Data and do-files to replicate analyses reported in the paper Aarøe, Osmundsen and Petersen, 2016: "...
From evolutionary psychological reasoning, we derived the hypothesis that chronic and contextually a...
The human mind evolved to avoid recurrent threats, one of them being the threat of interpersonal di...
Over the past few decades, researchers have become increasingly interested in the adaptations guidin...