ArticleEvolutionary psychological science2021
Capturing Fluctuations in Pathogen Avoidance: the Situational Pathogen Avoidance Scale.
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- Effects of fundamental social motives on environmental variation of compliance during pandemics.Evolutionary human sciences · 2026Article
- Effects of Spicy Food on Sense of Fairness: Mediating Effects of Aggression and Pathogen Avoidance.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- Situational pathogen avoidance mediates the impact of social connectedness on preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- "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
- Stigmatization of Chinese and Asian-looking people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Crowd Salience Heightens Tolerance to Healthy Facial Features.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2021Article
- Explaining the Voluntary Compliance to COVID-19 Measures: An Extrapolation on the Gender Perspective.Global journal of flexible systems management · 2021Article
- 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
Pathogen avoidance is an important motive underlying human behavior and is associated with numerous psychological processes-including biases against social groups heuristically associated with illness. Although there are reliable measurement scales to assess chronic dispositional levels of pathogen avoidance, no measurement scale currently exists to directly assess moment-to-moment fluctuations in pathogen avoidance. This paper presents the Situational Pathogen Avoidance (SPA) scale, which assesses situational variability in pathogen avoidance, especially as it pertains to avoidance of social stimuli. Across six studies, we demonstrate the reliability and validity of the SPA scale, show that the scale is influenced by situational activation of pathogen avoidance motives, and demonstrate that it mediates the association between pathogen avoidance motives (both chronic and situational) and social biases against obese and foreign targets. The SPA scale provides a valuable measurement tool for researchers who study pathogen avoidance and to those who study social biases more generally.
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