Authors
Joshua M Tybur, Debra Lieberman
Publication date
2016/2/1
Source
Current Opinion in Psychology
Volume
7
Pages
6-11
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Humans have adaptations for detecting and avoiding pathogens.
- These adaptations do not invariantely motivate avoidance when pathogens are detected.
- Benefits of avoidance are traded off against costs of avoidance.
- Understanding costs and benefits can help us understand state disgust.
- This framework can also be useful for understanding variation in disgust sensitivity.
Over the past few decades, researchers have become increasingly interested in the adaptations guiding the avoidance of disease-causing organisms. Here we discuss the latest developments in this area, including a recently developed information-processing model of the adaptations underlying pathogen avoidance. We argue that information-processing models like the one presented here can both increase our understanding of how individuals trade-off pathogen avoidance against other fitness relevant goals and elucidate the nature …
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JM Tybur, D Lieberman - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016