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- Influence
Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism
- C. L. Fincher, R. Thornhill, Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 7 June 2008
Pathogenic diseases impose selection pressures on the social behaviour of host populations. In humans (Homo sapiens), many psychological phenomena appear to serve an antipathogen defence function.… Expand
Pathogens, personality, and culture: disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experience.
- M. Schaller, Damian R. Murray
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 July 2008
Previous research has documented cross-cultural differences in personality traits, but the origins of those differences remain unknown. The authors investigate the possibility that these cultural… Expand
Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases Within 230 Geopolitical Regions: A Tool for Investigating Origins of Culture
- Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- Psychology
- 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… Expand
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence
- Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller
- Psychology
- 2016
Abstract The “behavioral immune system” is a motivational system that evolved as a means of inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies, influences… Expand
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… Expand
On the Origins of Cultural Differences in Conformity: Four Tests of the Pathogen Prevalence Hypothesis
- Damian R. Murray, Russell Trudeau, M. Schaller
- Psychology, Medicine
- Personality & social psychology bulletin
- 1 March 2011
What are the origins of cultural differences in conformity? The authors deduce the hypothesis that these cultural differences may reflect historical variability in the prevalence of disease-causing… Expand
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions
- J. Ackerman, S. E. 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… Expand
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
- Psychology, Medicine
- Evolutionary psychology : an international…
- 1 April 2010
The parasite-stress model of human sociality proposes that humans' ontogenetic experiences with infectious diseases as well as their evolutionary historical interactions with these diseases exert… Expand
Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism
- Damian R. Murray, M. Schaller, P. Suedfeld
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 1 May 2013
According to a "parasite stress" hypothesis, authoritarian governments are more likely to emerge in regions characterized by a high prevalence of disease-causing pathogens. Recent cross-national… Expand
Implications of the behavioural immune system for social behaviour and human health in the modern world
- M. Schaller, Damian R. Murray, A. Bangerter
- Biology, Medicine
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B…
- 26 May 2015
The ‘behavioural immune system’ is composed of mechanisms that evolved as a means of facilitating behaviours that minimized infection risk and enhanced fitness. Recent empirical research on human… Expand
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