Leah Borovoi
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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 Latent Perception of Pregnancy
The Latent Perception of Pregnancy Open
Background The main purpose of this study was to describe the latent structure of pregnancy perception by investigating the role of risks and medical examinations in pregnancy perception across the sexes and pregnancy status. Methods Study…
View article: Online Surveys
Online Surveys Open
This experimental study investigated factors that influence cheating in health literacy surveys. The objective was to predict who is most likely to cheat using Google in online knowledge surveys. The experiment randomly assigned 265 partic…
View article: The effects of feedback valance and progress monitoring on goal striving
The effects of feedback valance and progress monitoring on goal striving Open
The current paper explores how people’s goal strivings are influenced by feedback (positively valenced vs. negatively valenced), progress monitoring (remaining vs. accumulated) and goal specificity (vague vs. specific). Two laboratory-base…
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…