Capturing Fluctuations in Pathogen Avoidance: The Situational Pathogen Avoidance Scale [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2021 Pathogen avoidance is an important motive underlying human behavior and is associated with numerous psychological processes-including biases against social groups heuristically associated with illness. Although there are reliable measurement scales to assess chronic dispositional levels of pathogen avoidance, no measurement scale currently exists to ...
Jon Maner, Anastasia Makhanova
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Pathogen disgust sensitivity: Individual differences in pathogen perception or pathogen avoidance? [PDF]
Motivation and Emotion, 2021 Humans differ in their tendency to experience disgust and avoid contact with potential sources of pathogens. Pathogen disgust sensitivity has been used to explain a wide range of social phenomena, such as prejudice, conformity, and trust.
Jaeger, Bastian; id_orcid +2 more
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The role of social cognition in parasite and pathogen avoidance. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2018 The acquisition and use of social information are integral to social behaviour and parasite/pathogen avoidance. This involves social cognition which encompasses mechanisms for acquiring, processing, retaining and acting on social information.
Kavaliers M, Choleris E.
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Disentangling host genetic variation for avoidance and resistance to pathogens [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Hosts can use avoidance (e.g., behavior) to reduce their contact rates with pathogens; after contact, they can use resistance (e.g., immunity) to reduce the establishment and proliferation of an infection.
Caroline R. Amoroso, Janis Antonovics
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The evolution of disgust for pathogen detection and avoidance [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The behavioral immune system posits that disgust functions to protect animals from pathogen exposure. Therefore, cues of pathogen risk should be a primary driver influencing variation in disgust.
Jessica K. Hlay +7 more
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Do Experimental Manipulations of Pathogen Avoidance Motivations Influence Conformity? [PDF]
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021 By conforming to ingroup norms, individuals coordinate with other group members, preserve cohesion, and avoid costs of exclusion. Experimental studies have shown that increased concerns about infectious disease increases conformity. However, coordination
Willem Sleegers +2 more
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Danger appraisal and pathogen-avoidance mechanisms in stigma towards severe mental illness: the mediating role of affective responses [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2022 Background Stereotypes of dangerousness are common predictors of stigmatising attitudes towards Severe Mental Illness (SMI). However less is known about pathogen avoidance mechanisms underlying stigma towards SMI, specially in samples of non ...
Ana Chamorro Coneo +3 more
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Neurobiology of Pathogen Avoidance and Mate Choice: Current and Future Directions [PDF]
AnimalsAnimals are under constant threat of parasitic infection. This has influenced the evolution of social behaviour and has strong implications for sexual selection and mate choice. Animals assess the infection status of conspecifics based on various sensory
Dante Cantini +2 more
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Molecular requirements for C. elegans transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of pathogen avoidance [PDF]
eLifeBacteria are Caenorhabditis elegans’ food, and worms are naturally attracted to many bacteria, including pathogenic Pseudomonas, preferring PA14 over laboratory Escherichia coli (OP50).
Rachel Kaletsky +5 more
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Independent validation of transgenerational inheritance of learned pathogen avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans [PDF]
eLifePreviously, it was shown that learned avoidance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 in Caenorhabditis elegans can be transmitted to untrained offspring (Kaletsky et al., 2025).
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