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View article: Intrasexual competition predicts willingness to engage in risky weight loss behaviors: sex differences and similarities
Intrasexual competition predicts willingness to engage in risky weight loss behaviors: sex differences and similarities Open
Intrasexual Competitiveness has been theorized to be related to the development of anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) in women. A university sample was used to test the relationship between gender and intrasexual competition (I…
View article: The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice Open
Motivations to avoid infectious disease seem to influence prejudice toward some groups, including groups not explicitly associated with infectious disease. The standard explanation for this phenomenon is based on signal detection theory an…
View article: The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice (stage 1 registered report)
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice (stage 1 registered report) Open
Motivations to avoid infectious disease seem to influence prejudice toward some groups, including groups not explicitly associated with infectious disease. The standard explanation relies on signal detection theory and proposes that pathog…
View article: Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility.
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility. Open
How do natural changes in disease avoidance motivation shape thoughts about and behaviors toward ingroup and outgroup members? During the COVID-19 pandemic, political party affiliation has been a strong predictor in the United States of CO…
View article: Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility Open
How do natural changes in disease avoidance motivation shape thoughts about and behaviors toward ingroup and outgroup members? During the COVID-19 pandemic, political party affiliation has been a strong predictor in the United States of CO…
View article: Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations Open
Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women. It is currently unknown whether this association is present across cultures, or s…
View article: The prevalence of dyads in social life
The prevalence of dyads in social life Open
A salient objective feature of the social environment in which people find themselves is group size. Knowledge of group size is highly relevant to behavioural scientists given that humans spend considerable time in social settings and the …
View article: Visual disgust elicitors produce an attentional blink independent of contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance.
Visual disgust elicitors produce an attentional blink independent of contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance. Open
Multiple studies report that disgust-eliciting stimuli are perceived as salient and subsequently capture selective attention. In the current study, we aimed to better understand the nature of temporal attentional biases toward disgust-elic…
View article: Searching for a face in the crowd: Pitfalls and unexplored possibilities
Searching for a face in the crowd: Pitfalls and unexplored possibilities Open
View article: Visual disgust-elicitors produce an attentional blink independent of contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance
Visual disgust-elicitors produce an attentional blink independent of contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance Open
Multiple studies report that disgust-eliciting stimuli are perceived as salient and subsequently capture selective attention. In the current study, we aimed to better understand the nature of temporal attentional biases toward disgust-elic…
View article: Bridging psychology and engineering to make technology work for people.
Bridging psychology and engineering to make technology work for people. Open
Engineering grand challenges and big ideas not only demand innovative engineering solutions, but also typically involve and affect human thought, behavior, and quality of life. To solve these types of complex problems, multidisciplinary te…
View article: Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations Open
Significance Pathogens, and antipathogen behavioral strategies, affect myriad aspects of human behavior. Recent findings suggest that antipathogen strategies relate to political attitudes, with more ideologically conservative individuals r…
View article: Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment Open