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Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism
- C. L. Fincher, R. Thornhill, Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- PsychologyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 7 June 2008
The results support the hypothesis that collectivism (compared with individualism) will more often characterize cultures in regions that have historically had higher prevalence of pathogens, and reveal previously undocumented consequences of pathogenic diseases on the variable nature of human societies.
Pathogens, personality, and culture: disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experience.
- M. Schaller, Damian R. Murray
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 July 2008
In regions that have historically suffered from high levels of infectious diseases, people report lower mean levels of sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness, and alternative explanations are addressed, and possible underlying mechanisms are discussed.
Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases Within 230 Geopolitical Regions: A Tool for Investigating Origins of Culture
- Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- Sociology
- 1 January 2010
Regional differences in disease prevalence are associated with a wide array of cross-cultural differences. However, the complex relationships among culture, disease, and other ecological variables…
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence
- Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- Psychology
- 2016
Threat(s) and conformity deconstructed: Perceived threat of infectious disease and its implications for conformist attitudes and behavior
- Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- Psychology
- 1 March 2012
Threat has been linked to conformity, but little is known about the specific effects of different kinds of threat. We test the hypothesis that perceived threat of infectious disease exerts a unique…
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions
- J. Ackerman, S. Hill, Damian R. Murray
- Psychology
- 1 February 2018
Soc Personal Psychol Compass. 2018;12:e12371. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12371 w Abstract The behavioral immune system is a motivational system that helps minimize infection risk by changing…
Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism
- Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller, P. Suedfeld
- PsychologyPLoS ONE
- 1 May 2013
Two studies address inferential limitations associated with cross-national comparisons, and suggest that societal differences in authoritarian governance result, in part, from cultural differences in individuals' authoritarian personalities.
On the Origins of Cultural Differences in Conformity: Four Tests of the Pathogen Prevalence Hypothesis
- Damian R. Murray, Russell Trudeau, M. Schaller
- PsychologyPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- 1 March 2011
The hypothesis that cultural differences in conformity may reflect historical variability in the prevalence of disease-causing pathogens and where pathogens were more prevalent, there was likely to emerge cultural norms promoting greater conformity.
Zoonotic and Non-Zoonotic Diseases in Relation to Human Personality and Societal Values: Support for the Parasite-Stress Model
- R. Thornhill, C. L. Fincher, Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- Biology, PsychologyEvolutionary Psychology
- 1 April 2010
Supporting the parasite-stress model, cross-national differences in personality traits and in societal values are predicted specifically by non-zoonotic parasite prevalence.
Implications of the behavioural immune system for social behaviour and human health in the modern world
- M. Schaller, Damian R. Murray, A. Bangerter
- Biology, PsychologyPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B…
- 26 May 2015
This article summarizes pertinent ways in which modern human societies are similar to and different from the ecologies within which the behavioural immune system evolved and identifies a set of plausible implications—both positive and negative—that the behaviouralimmune system may have on health outcomes in contemporary human contexts.
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