Conducting exposure and response prevention treatment for contamination fears during COVID-19: The behavioral immune system impact on clinician approaches to treatment [PDF]
J Anxiety Disord, 2020 Highlights • COVID-19 has resulted in significant changes in treatment delivery for contamination OCD.• Activation of the Behavioral Immune System (BIS) in clinicians may impact exposure delivery for contamination fear.• Survey findings show a highly ...
D. McKay, Charlene Minaya, E. Storch
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Social Psychological Bulletin, 2021 Topics of prejudice, discrimination, and negative attitudes toward outgroups have attracted much attention of social scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the preference for social distancing can originate from the perception of threat.
Aleksandra Szymkow +2 more
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Exploring the Role of the Behavioral Immune System in Acceptability of Entomophagy Using Semantic Associations and Food-Related Attitudes [PDF]
Front Nutr, 2019 Entomophagy refers to eating insects. Insect food, including cooked insects and other processed food with insect-based ingredients, is consumed in many regions of the world as a part of traditional dietary behavior, or as innovative functional food ...
Kun Qian, Yuki Yamada
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Visually Activating Pathogen Disgust: A New Instrument for Studying the Behavioral Immune System [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 The emotion of disgust plays a key role in the behavioral immune system, a set of disease-avoidance processes constituting a frontline defense against pathogenic threats.
P. Culpepper +3 more
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Sensitivity to Deviance and to Dissimilarity: Basic Cognitive Processes Under Activation of the Behavioral Immune System [PDF]
Evol Psychol, 2018 Throughout evolutionary history, pathogens have imposed strong selection pressures on humans. To minimize humans’ exposure to pathogens, a behavioral immune system that promotes the detection and avoidance of disease-connoting cues has evolved.
Ravit Nussinson +2 more
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Editorial: Behavioral Immune System: Its Psychological Bases and Functions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Kazunori Iwasa +2 more
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Behavioral Immune System and Ingroup Derogation: The Effects of Infectious Diseases on Ingroup Derogation Attitudes [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 From evolutionary reasoning, we derived a novel hypothesis that ingroup derogation is an evolved response of behavioral immune system which follows the smoke detector principle and the functional flexibility principle.
Qi Wu +3 more
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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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An Artificial Behavioral Immune System for cognitive robotics
Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, 2013 The paper proposes the implementation of an artificial behavioral immune system (ABIS) that could be integrated on a robotic platform. The ultimate goal is to have a form of perceptual processing to create the sensation of disgust (on more in general of ...
Ignazio Infantino, R. Rizzo
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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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