ArticlePsychological science2020
Preregistered Direct Replication of "Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System".
Article in Psychological science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Training Improves Avoidance of Natural Sick Faces: Changes in Visual Attention and Approach Decisions.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mate assessment based on physical characteristics: a review and reflection.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and the role of recent health problems.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Disgust sensitivity in early pregnancy as a response to high pathogen risk.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Disease-related disgust promotes antibody release in human saliva.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2022Article
- Disgust Sensitivity Among Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Pathogens, odors, and disgust in rodents.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Disgust Sensitivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- No Support for Two Hypotheses About the Communicative Functions of Displaying Disgust: Evidence From Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
The tendency to attend to and avoid cues to pathogens varies across individuals and contexts. Researchers have proposed that this variation is partially driven by immunological vulnerability to infection, though support for this hypothesis is equivocal. One key piece of evidence (Miller & Maner, 2011) shows that participants who have recently been ill-and hence may have a reduced ability to combat subsequent infection-allocate more attention to faces with infectious-disease cues than do participants who have not recently been ill. The current article describes a direct replication of this study using a sample of 402 individuals from the University of Michigan, the University of Glasgow, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam-more than 4 times the sample size of the original study. No effect of illness recency on attentional bias for disfigured faces emerged. Though it did not support the original finding, this replication provides suggestions for future research on the psychological underpinnings of pathogen avoidance.
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