Meat Is Good to Taboo: Dietary Proscriptions as a Product of the Interaction of Psychological Mechanisms and Social Processes

By Daniel M.T. Fessler, C. David Navarrete. 2003

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

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Religious Beliefs as Reflective Elaborations on Intuitions: A Modified Dual-Process Model (2013, background): “…and intuitive psychology systems make gods and spirits plausible ( J. L. Barrett, 2004; Epley, Waytz, & Cacioppo, 2007), disgust reactions make taboos apparently sensible (Fessler & Navarrete, 2003), and pragmatic intuitions about conversations feed notions of divine communication (Luhrmann, 2005).”
No Compromise: Political Consequences of Moralized Attitudes (2017, unknown): “Across cultures, various local taboos cause certain sexual acts or the consumption of particular foods to evoke contempt and punitive sentiments in some places, but not others (e.g. Fessler and Navarrete 2003, 2004).”
Angry men and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of emotions on risk taking (2004, background): “Viewed from an evolutionary perspective, disgust, the response to the presence of contamination, motivates avoidance of contact in order to reduce exposure to pathogens and toxins (Cosmides & Tooby, 2000; Curtis & Biran, 2001; Curtis, Aunger, & Rabie, 2004; Fessler & Navarrete, 2003; Levenson, 199”
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, unknown): “Joseph Henrich”
Human pathogen avoidance adaptations (2016, background): “Research in this area has outlined the contours of human pathogen avoidance adaptations, showing how such adaptations mold mate preferences [4,5 ,6], dietary behaviors [7,8], xenophobia [9], ideological liberalism versus conservatism”
The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion: credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution (2009, background): “…paragons of virtue who make (or made) costly sacrifices; (2) martyrdom is so persuasive; (3) religions and rituals are loaded with sacrifices of various kinds; (4) gods and ancestors want costly acts; and (5) religious leaders often take costly vows, such as those involving poverty and celibacy.”
The Psychology of Eating Animals (2014, background): “However, meat can also elicit disgust, arguably because it poses a higher risk of carrying dangerous pathogens than plant material (Fessler & Navarrete, 2003).”
On the merits of plant-based proteins for global food security: Marrying macro and micro perspectives (2011, background): “This notion has been emphasized by scholars with very different backgrounds, including zooarchaeologists (deFrance, 2009), historians (Hoffmann, 2001), anthropologists (Fessler and Navarrete, 2003), ecologists (Pimentel and Pimentel, 2003), nutritionists (Sabaté, 2003), geographers (Grigg, 1999), ec”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “…Keane, Manes, Antoun, & Young, 2000; Curtis , Aunger, & Rabie, 2004; Curtis & Biran, 2001; Curtis et al., 2011; Fessler, Eng, & Navarrete, 2005; Fessler & Navarrete, 2003a; Fleischman & Fessler, 2011; Kelly, 2011; Marzillier & Davey, 2004; Oaten et al., 2009; Olatunji & Sawchuk, 2005; Rozin…”
Culture and Cognition (2019, unknown): “…that the agents possess nearly all, but not all, of the properties expected by mechanisms that serve to detect agents and predict their actions; Fessler and Navarrete (2003) suggest that the centrality of meat in food taboos is an accident of the salience of meat as a stimulus in…”
Determinants of willingness to eat insects in the USA and India (2015, background): “Following up on Holt’s 1885 (1992) classic, ‘Why not eat insects?’, a number of entomologists have written about the advantages of eating insects.”
Elevated disgust sensitivity in the first trimester of pregnancy: Evidence supporting the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis (2005, unknown): “…avoidance of contact and rejection of oral incorporation, is elicited by many stimuli associated with pathogen transmission, suggesting that disgust is an adaptation that serves to guard against disease (Curtis, Aunger, & Rabie, 2004; Curtis & Biran, 2001; Fessler & Navarrete, 2003b; Nesse, 1990).”
Third-party attitudes toward sibling incest: Evidence for Westermarck's hypotheses (2004, background): “…evolved to protect against pathogen exposure (Curtis et al., 2004; Fessler & Navarrete, 2003b) and was subsequently exapted to the domain of sexual behavior (Cosmides & Tooby, 2000; Fessler & Navarrete, 2003a), it may simply not have been possible to separate sexual disgust from egocentric empathy.”
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration (2017, background): “These costs and probabilities vary across individuals and contexts (see Al-Shawaf and Lewis 2013; Fessler, Eng, and Navarrete 2005; Fessler and Navarrete 2003).”