BACKGROUND Contagious pathogens can trigger diverse changes in host social
behaviors, rewiring their social networks and profoundly influencing the extent and pace of …

Although it has commonly been assumed that the immune system and the processes that
govern social behavior are separate, non-communicating entities, research over the past …

Interest in and research on disgust has surged over the past few decades. The field,
however, still lacks a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the evolved function …

The behavioral immune system is a motivational system that helps minimize infection risk by
changing cognition, affect, and behavior in ways that promote pathogen avoidance. In the …

The “behavioral immune system” is a motivational system that evolved as a means of
inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies …

Motivation has long been recognized as an important component of how people both differ
from, and are similar to, each other. The current research applies the biologically grounded …

Like many other animals, human beings engage in behavioral defenses against infectious
pathogens. The behavioral immune system consists of a suite of psychological mechanisms …

Within affective science, the central line of inquiry, animated by basic emotion theory and
constructivist accounts, has been the search for one-to-one mappings between six emotions …

People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are
nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent …

What would a comprehensive atlas of human emotions include? For 50 years, scientists
have sought to map emotion-related experience, expression, physiology, and recognition in …