The social impact of pathogen threat: How disease salience influences conformity

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Perceived threat of infectious disease and its implications for sexual attitudes (2013, methodology): “Second, previous experiments employing these manipulations have shown that they do produce conceptually identical effects on common outcome variables (Murray & Schaller, 2012; Wu & Chang, 2012).”
The Behavioral Immune System (2015, background): “…when people feel temporarily vulnerable to the threat posed by infectious diseases, they express greater liking for people with conformist traits, endorse more conformist attitudes, and are more likely to behaviorally conform with majority opinion (Murray & Schaller, 2012; Wu & Chang, 2012).”
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions (2018, background): “Examples of such variables include conformist attitudes to abstract art, liking for people who defy social norms, self‐evaluation of appearance, or social categorization of novel faces (Ackerman et al., in press; Makhanova et al., 2015; Murray & Schaller, 2012; Wu & Chang, 2012).”
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, background): “These hypothesized implications are supported by results obtained through both correlational and experimental methods (Murray & Schaller, 2012; Wu & Chang, 2012).”