Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: the effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes

By C. David Navarrete, Daniel M.T. Fessler. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Disgust and mating strategy (2015, unknown): “…Angyal, 1941; Buss, 2003, 2012; Curtis, de Barra, & Aunger, 2011; Fleischman & Fessler, 2011; Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; Haidt, McCauley, & Rozin, 1994; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006; Rozin & Fallon, 1987; Schaller, Miller, Gervais, Yager, & Chen, 2010; Tybur, Lieberman, Kurzban, & DeScioli, 2012).”
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, unknown): “…members of subjectively foreign outgroups (Faulkner et al., 2004; Hodson & Costello, 2007; Inbar, Pizarro, Knobe, & Bloom, 2009; Lieberman, Tybur, & Latner, 2012; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006; Olatunji, Haidt, McKay, & David, 2008; Park et al., 2003; Terrizzi, Shook, & Ventis, 2010; Vartanian, 2010).”
Disgust Sensitivity, Political Conservatism, and Voting (2012, background): “Given that recent research on pathogen threat and disease avoidance links these constructs to ethnocentrism (Navarrete & Fessler, 2006), hostility toward foreigners (Faulkner et al., 2004), and more negative attitudes toward socially stigmatized groups (Park, Faulkner, & Schaller, 2003; Park,…”
Regional variation in pathogen prevalence predicts endorsement of group-focused moral concerns (2012, background): “…been found to play a role in the selective rejection of individuals perceived to pose contagion risks, such as foreigners and those with an anomalous appearance (Faulkner, Schaller, Park, & Duncan, 2004; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006; Park, Faulkner, & Schaller, 2003; Park, Schaller, & Crandall, 2007).”
Fear as a Disposition and an Emotional State: A Genetic and Environmental Approach to Out‐Group Political Preferences (2013, background): “Indeed, we find little evidence that conservatives in general are more phobic or fearful, and whatever relationship exists is driven by those individuals in the most extreme phobic range.”
Elevated ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy (2007, background): “Navarrete and Fessler (2006) found that Americans’ preference for Americans over foreigners increased as a function of perceived vulnerability to disease and disgust toward potential avenues for contamination, effects due neither to the negative valence of the stimuli nor to mortality concerns.”
Perceived vulnerability to disease: Development and validation of a 15-item self-report instrument (2009, methodology): “First, given that the emotion of disgust is elicited by diseaseconnoting cues (Curtis et al., 2004), one might use measures of disgust sensitivity as an affective indicator of perceived vulnerability to disease (e.g., Navarrete & Fessler, 2006 ).”
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions (2018, methodology): “…stigmatize individuals possessing cues heuristically associated with disease (Crandall & Moriarty, 1995; Faulkner et al., 2004; Huang et al., 2011; Miller & Maner, 2012; Mortensen et al., 2010; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006; Park et al., 2007; Peterson, 2017; van Leeuwen, Park, Koenig, & Graham, 2012).”
Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights (2009, background): “Disgust sensitivity is also associated with elevated levels of ethnocentrism, prejudice, and rightwing authoritarianism (Hudson & Costello, 2007; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006).”
Pathogen-avoidance mechanisms and the stigmatization of obese people (2007, background): “People who chronically feel more vulnerable to disease show stronger responses (Faulkner, Schaller, Park, & Duncan, 2004; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006; Park et al., 2003).”