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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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Immune–neural connections: how the immune system’s response to infectious agents influences behavior [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013 SummaryHumans and animals use the classical five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste to monitor their environment. The very survival of feral animals depends on these sensory perception systems, which is a central theme in scholarly research on comparative aspects of anatomy and physiology.
Robert H, McCusker, Keith W, Kelley
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Guns, germs, and stealing: exploring the link between infectious disease and crime. [PDF]
, 2013 Can variation in crime rates be traced to the threat of infectious disease? Pathogens pose an ongoing challenge to survival, leading humans to adapt defenses to manage this threat.
Shrira, Ilan +2 more
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Food Intake, Diet Quality and Behavioral Problems in Children: Results from the GINI-plus/LISA-plus Studies [PDF]
, 2012 Background/Aims: To assess the association between food intake and diet quality and behavioral problems at the 10-year follow-up of the two population-based birth cohorts of the studies German Infant Nutritional Intervention and `Influences of lifestyle ...
Bauer, Carl-Peter +11 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Negative attitudes and stigmatization can originate from the perception of a disease-related threat. Following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is often suggested that incidents of discriminatory behavior are the result of defense mechanisms aimed
Aleksandra Szymkow +2 more
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Association of a MET genetic variant with autism-associated maternal autoantibodies to fetal brain proteins and cytokine expression. [PDF]
, 2011 The contribution of peripheral immunity to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) risk is debated and poorly understood. Some mothers of children with ASD have autoantibodies that react to fetal brain proteins, raising the possibility that a subset of ASD ...
Ashwood, P +4 more
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Understanding the role of P2X7 in affective disorders—are glial cells the major players? [PDF]
, 2015 Pathophysiology associated with several psychiatric disorders has been linked to inflammatory biomarkers. This has generated a theory of major depressive disorders as an inflammatory disease.
Jenkins, Trisha A. +2 more
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The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters) [PDF]
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2011 Like many other animals, human beings engage in behavioral defenses against infectious pathogens. The behavioral immune system consists of a suite of psychological mechanisms that (a) detect cues connoting the presence of infectious pathogens in the immediate environment, (b) trigger disease-relevant emotional and cognitive responses, and thus (c ...
Schaller, M, Park, JH
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Imprint of ancestral and modern threats in human mind – experience of fear, disgust, and anger
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThreats to our survival are often posed by the environment in which humans have evolved or live today. Animal and human ancestors developed complex physiological and behavioral response systems to cope with two types of threats: immediate ...
Eva Landová +8 more
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Contamination and disgust: A cross-national comparison of Ghana and the United States
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The emotion of disgust, with feelings of revulsion and behavioral withdrawal, make it a prime emotion to aid in the avoidance of sources of contamination, including sources of potential infectious disease.
Alexander Jay Skolnick +1 more
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