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 'social distancing'that occurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in humans
provides a powerful illustration of the intimate relationship between infectious disease and …

The purpose of the present study was to propose and test two models to understand the
relationship between perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 (PVC) and COVID-19-related …

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 …

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 …

People sometimes perceive social environments as unpleasantly crowded. Previous work
has linked these experiences to incidental factors such as being hungry or hot and to the …

One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the role of the mind in one's apprehension of the
world is the existence of cognitive biases. This chapter presents a three‐category framework …

Abstract Drawing upon the Parasite Model of Democratization across two preregistered
experiments conducted in the USA and Poland (total N= 1,237), we examined the …

Many animals engage in many behaviors that reduce their exposure to pathogens. Ants line
their nests with resins that inhibit the growth of fungi and bacteria (Chapuisat, Oppliger …

Risk taking is typically viewed through a lens of individual deficits (eg, impulsivity) or
normative influence (eg, peer pressure). An unexplored possibility is that shared group …