ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Consumption, contact and copulation: how pathogens have shaped human psychological adaptations.
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- Self-perceived Mate Value is Predicted by Biological and self-reported Indices of Health in Young Adults.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2023Article
- Lessons learned developing and testing family-based interoceptive exposure for adolescents with low-weight eating disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- "Touch Me If You Can!": Individual Differences in Disease Avoidance and Social Touch.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior · 2021Article
- The evolution of disgust for pathogen detection and avoidance.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Infection threat shapes our social instincts.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Review
- Touch in the era of the coronavirus pandemic.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2020Article
- The source effect as a natural function of disgust in interpersonal context and its impairment in mental disorders.Scientific reports · 2019Observational
- How can we improve identification of contagious individuals? Factors influencing sickness detection.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- COVID-19 and Memory: A Novel Contamination Effect in Memory.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Disgust is an emotion intimately linked to pathogen avoidance. Building on prior work, we suggest disgust is an output of programmes that evolved to address three separate adaptive problems: what to eat, what to touch and with whom to have sex. We briefly discuss the architecture of these programmes, specifying their perceptual inputs and the contextual factors that enable them to generate adaptive and flexible behaviour. We propose that our sense of disgust is the result of these programmes and occurs when information-processing circuitries assess low expected values of consumption, low expected values of contact or low expected sexual values. This conception of disgust differs from prior models in that it dissects pathogen-related selection pressures into adaptive problems related to consumption and contact rather than assuming just one pathogen disgust system, and it excludes moral disgust from the domain of disgust proper. Instead, we illustrate how low expected values of consumption and contact as well as low expected sexual values can be used by our moral psychology to provide multiple causal links between disgust and morality.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours'.
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