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An adaptive behavioral immune system: a model of population health behavior [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 The understanding that immunity could be strengthened in the general population (e.g., through vaccine interventions) supported global advances upon acute infectious disease epidemics in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Julian M. Saad, James O. Prochaska
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Pathogens and Immigrants: A Critical Appraisal of the Behavioral Immune System as an Explanation of Prejudice Against Ethnic Outgroups [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The last two decades have seen the development of a body of literature in evolutionary psychology that seeks to attribute negative attitudes to ethnic and racial minorities and other outgroups to an evolved behavioral immune system (BIS). It hypothesizes
Isabel Kusche +2 more
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Nervous system guides behavioral immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans [PDF]
PeerJCaenorhabditis elegans is a versatile model organism for exploring complex biological systems. Microbes and the external environment can affect the nervous system and drive behavioral changes in C. elegans. For better survival, C.
Yu Wang +4 more
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Behavioral immune system and trypophobia (tur)
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2022 NA
Süleyman Öztürk +4 more
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Disgust sensitivity in early pregnancy as a response to high pathogen risk
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionConsidered a part of the behavioral immune system (BIS), disgust sensitivity is expected to be adjusting as a response to the actual level of the environmental health risks.MethodsIn this preregistered study, we tested the hypothesis that ...
Šárka Kaňková +6 more
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Behavioral factors to modulate immunotherapy efficacy in cancer
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Immune checkpoint inhibitors, including anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 therapies, are used to (re)activate the immune system to treat cancer. Despite promising results, a large group of patients does not respond to checkpoint inhibition.
C. Jongerius +12 more
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A developmental study of the understanding of “Contamination” in older children and adults
Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2022 The purpose of this study was to examine the understanding of contamination, which consists of cognition, emotion, and behavior, and the relationship of the understanding of contamination and the behavioral immune system from the perspective of ...
Kaho Kureya
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Body odors are universal elicitors of disgust, a core emotion that plays a key role in the behavioral immune system (BIS) – a set of psychological functions working to avoid disease.
Marta Zuzanna Zakrzewska +6 more
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Recontextualizing the behavioral immune system within psychoneuroimmunology. [PDF]
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2014 We believe that the concept of the behavioral immune system (BIS) picks out an important set of phenomena, namely, the relationships between the immune system and disease-avoidant psychology. However, our enthusiasm is tempered by the recognition that (a) there are unresolved ambiguities in the BIS concept, which has been used in a variety of ...
Clark, Jason A., Fessler, Daniel M.T.
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On the Origin of Shame: Does Shame Emerge From an Evolved Disease-Avoidance Architecture?
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Shame and disgust are believed to be evolved psychological solutions to different adaptive challenges. Shame is thought to promote the maintenance of social hierarchies (Gilbert, 1997; Fessler, 2004), whereas disgust is believed to encourage disease ...
John A. Terrizzi Jr., Natalie J. Shook
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