ArticlePersonality and individual differences2021
Associations of political orientation, xenophobia, right-wing authoritarianism, and concern of COVID-19: Cognitive responses to an actual pathogen threat.
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- Fight, Flight, or Vote Right? A Systematic Review of Threat Sensitivity in Political Conservatism.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Taking Stock and Looking Forward to the Future of Pathogen Politics in Light of New Insights and Recommendations: COVID-19 Threat Was Meaningfully Associated With Support for Liberal Policies in the United States.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2025Article
- Palliative and hegemonic dimensions of conservatism: the mitigating role of institutional trust in shaping attitudes toward migrants and migration policy preferences.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Salience of infectious diseases did not increase xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic.Evolutionary human sciences · 2024Article
- The pandemic and social experience: For whom did discrimination and social isolation increase?Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2024Article
- Expectations and disappointments relative to COVID-19 passes: results from a voluntary mixed-methods study in French-speaking Belgium.IJID regions · 2023Review
- Neuroticism predicts national vaccination rates across 56 countries.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- The role of the behavioural immune system on covid-19 lockdown attitudes: The relationship with authoritarianism and collectivism.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2023Article
- The Serbian COVID-19 Stress Scale and vaccine acceptance: is there a place for COVID-19-related distress in explaining attitudes towards vaccination?Public health · 2022Article
- "It's true! I saw it on WhatsApp": Social Media, Covid-19, and Political-Ideological Orientation in Brazil.Trends in psychology · 2022Article
- Is the myth of left-wing authoritarianism itself a myth?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous research has related the existence of pathogenic threat to an individual's social cognition, with people avoiding physical interactions with those who have potential contagion risks. These pathogenic induced behavioral responses have broader social consequences, such as avoidance of outgroup members or negative reactions to individuals foreign to one's own group. Specially, higher pathogen threat is associated with xenophobic attitudes and ideological tendencies, such as authoritarianism and political conservatism. The COVID-19 pandemic provides an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the effect of pathogenic threat on the above-mentioned variables in a real-world situation. Collecting data during a low (
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