Sociality, Pathogen Avoidance, and the Neuropeptides Oxytocin and Arginine Vasopressin
Psychological Science, 2011 Both humans and nonhumans have evolved a variety of mechanisms to recognize pathogen threat and a variety of adaptive behavioral responses to minimize exposure to it.
Elena Choleris, Martin Kavaliers
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What Role Does Pathogen-Avoidance Psychology Play in Pandemics? [PDF]
Trends Cogn Sci, 2021 A substantial body of research has illuminated psychological adaptations motivating pathogen avoidance, mechanisms collectively known as the behavioral immune system.
Ackerman JM, Tybur JM, Blackwell AD.
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Helping While Social Distancing: Pathogen Avoidance Motives Influence People's Helping Intentions during the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The behavioral immune system (BIS) theory suggests that pathogen avoidance motives relate to greater behavioral avoidance against social interactions that pose potential risks of pathogen transmission.
Ding Y, Ji T, Guo Y.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 COVID-19 has had a profound negative effect on many aspects of human life. While pharmacological solutions are being developed and implemented, the onus of mitigating the impact of the virus falls, in part, on individual citizens and their adherence to ...
James O. Norton +6 more
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Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report [PDF]
, 2022 Over the past decade, a small literature has tested how trait-level pathogen-avoidance motives (e.g., disgust sensitivity) and exposure to pathogen cues relate to preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism.
Jones, Benedict C +23 more
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Neural and molecular mechanisms of pathogen avoidance in caenorhabditis elegans [PDF]
, 2023 Upon exposure to harmful microorganisms, hosts engage in protective molecular and behavioral immune responses, both of which are ultimately regulated by the nervous system.
Filipowicz, Adam
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TRP channels: Intestinal bloating TRiPs up pathogen avoidance. [PDF]
Cell Calcium, 2021 Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are expressed in many nonneural tissues where their functions are not well known. Using C. elegans as a model, a new study demonstrated that colonization of the Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria E. faecalis in the intestine causes intestinal distention.
Ronan EA, Xiao R, Xu XZS.
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Bacterial Lawn Avoidance and Bacterial Two Choice Preference Assays in Caenorhabditis elegans
Bio-Protocol, 2020 Physical avoidance of pathogens is a crucial defense strategy used by the host to reduce pathogen infection. Hosts display the use of multiple strategies to sense and avoid pathogens, ranging from olfaction to sensing of damage caused by pathogen ...
Jogender Singh, Alejandro Aballay
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Diagnostic testing and the evolution of detection avoidance by pathogens
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2023 Abstract Diagnostic testing is a key tool in the fight against many infectious diseases. The emergence of pathogen variants that are able to avoid detection by diagnostic testing therefore represents a key challenge for public health.
Jason Wood, Ben Ashby
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Pathogen evolution under host avoidance plasticity [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015 Host resistance consists of defences that limit pathogen burden, and can be classified as either adaptations targeting recovery from infection or those focused upon infection avoidance. Conventional theory treats avoidance as a fixed strategy which does not vary from one interaction to the next. However, there is increasing empirical evidence that many
David V, McLeod, Troy, Day
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