This article provides an overview of the “behavioural immune system”–a suite of
psychological mechanisms that complements immunological defences by motivating pre …

Infectious disease threatens humans across cultures and time periods. The mental
mechanisms that have evolved to navigate this threat can have non-intuitive consequences …

This book explores the metaphors used in public and media communication to ask how
language shapes our moral reasoning about the global coronavirus crisis. The author offers …

Behavioural immune system theory predicts that attitudes towards immigrants become more
hostile during times of increased threat from pathogens, as pandemic threat triggers …

Importance Delaying critical care for treatable conditions owing to fear of contracting COVID-
19 in the emergency department (ED) is associated with avoidable morbidity and mortality …

While analysis of the impact of threatening events has moved from bit player to center stage
in political science in recent decades, the phenomenon of pandemic threat is widely …

The emotion of disgust is suggested to be an adaptation that evolved to keep us away from
sources of infection. Therefore, individuals from populations with greater pathogen stress …

As social animals, humans need to live in groups. This contact with conspecifics is essential
for their evolution and survival. Among the recommendations to reduce transmission of the …

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 …

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the current study examines the association between
cyberchondria and health anxiety in the Pakistani population, with health literacy as a …