Keyword

pathogen avoidance

Description: A psychological tendency to avoid potential sources of infection, shaped by emotional and social responses to perceived pathogen threats.

Primary topic: Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (25%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q106959553

OpenAlex ID: keywords/pathogen-avoidance

Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism.

2009 · Megan Oaten, Richard J. Stevenson, et al. · Psychological Bulletin · 1,119

The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters)

2011 · Mark Schaller, Justin H. Park · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 1,118

Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.

2009 · Joshua M. Tybur, Debra Lieberman, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,114

Disgust: Evolved function and structure.

2012 · Joshua M. Tybur, Debra Lieberman, et al. · Psychological Review · 809

Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour

2011 · Valerie Curtis, Mícheál de Barra, et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 745

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Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: the effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes

2006 · Carlos David Navarrete, Daniel M.T. Fessler · Evolution and Human Behavior · 609

The behavioural immune system and the psychology of human sociality

2011 · Mark Schaller · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 440

A reverse genetic analysis of components of the Toll signaling pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

2001 · Nathalie Pujol, Elizabeth M. Link, et al. · Current Biology · 438

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Pathogen-avoidance mechanisms and the stigmatization of obese people

2007 · Justin H. Park, Mark Schaller, et al. · Evolution and Human Behavior · 378

Detection and avoidance of a natural product from the pathogenic bacterium Serratia marcescens by Caenorhabditis elegans

2007 · Elizabeth Pradel, Yun Zhang, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 373

The behavioral immune system: Its evolution and social psychological implications.

2007 · Mark Schaller, Lesley A. Duncan · 298

The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions

2018 · Joshua M. Ackerman, Sarah E. Hill, et al. · Social and Personality Psychology Compass · 255

Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations

2016 · Joshua M. Tybur, Yoel Inbar, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 252

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C. elegans interprets bacterial non-coding RNAs to learn pathogenic avoidance

2020 · Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca S. Moore, et al. · Nature · 243

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Ants Disinfect Fungus-Exposed Brood by Oral Uptake and Spread of Their Poison

2012 · Simon Tragust, Barbara Mitteregger, et al. · Current Biology · 243

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Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle

2003 · Daniel M.T. Fessler, C.David Navarrete · Evolution and Human Behavior · 226

Development and validation of the Food Disgust Scale

2017 · Christina Hartmann, Michael Siegrist · Food Quality and Preference · 211

Behavioural defences in animals against pathogens and parasites: parallels with the pillars of medicine in humans

2011 · Benjamin L. Hart · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 193

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Children’s response to adult disgust elicitors: Development and acquisition.

2010 · Richard J. Stevenson, Megan J. Oaten, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 171

Positive selection in the egg receptor for abalone sperm lysin

2003 · Blanca E. Galindo, Victor D. Vacquier, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 154

Human pathogen avoidance adaptations

2015 · Joshua M Tybur, Debra Lieberman · Current Opinion in Psychology · 148

How mammals stay healthy in nature: the evolution of behaviours to avoid parasites and pathogens

2018 · Benjamin L. Hart, Lynette A. Hart · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 138

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Mate preferences and infectious disease: theoretical considerations and evidence in humans

2011 · Joshua M. Tybur, Steven W. Gangestad · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 136

The behavioral immune system is designed to avoid infected individuals, not outgroups

2017 · Florian van Leeuwen, Michael Bang Petersen · Evolution and Human Behavior · 125

Why do so many modern people hate insects? The urbanization–disgust hypothesis

2021 · Yuya Fukano, Masashi Soga · The Science of The Total Environment · 124

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