Pathogen-avoidance mechanisms and the stigmatization of obese people

By Justin H. Park, Mark Schaller, C. Crandall. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Literature and Literary Theory, Pharmacy

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Sex Differences in Disgust: Why Are Women More Easily Disgusted Than Men? (2018, background): “For example, despite their non-contagious nature, many people are disgusted by obesity, birthmarks, and wounds caused by burns (Park et al., 2003; Park et al., 2007).”
The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas (2019, background): “In addition to concerns about character, because obesity and overweight are perceived as abnormal physical features, they may activate the behavioral immune system [99] and elicit disgust and related concerns about disease avoidance [114], which leads to distancing and other direct forms of social r”
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions (2018, background): “…can act as cues to the presence of pathogens in others, including disfigurements (Ackerman et al., 2009; Miller & Maner, 2011), disabilities (Park, Faulkner, & Schaller, 2003), obesity (Lund & Miller, 2014; Park et al., 2007), and elderly appearance (Duncan & Schaller, 2009; Miller & Maner, 2012).”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “…presence, they are proximally avoided and/or stigmatized (Kleck, 1969; Kurzban & Leary, 2001; Oaten et al., 2011; Schaller & Duncan, 2007; Worthington, 1974) and that contextual or chronic motivations to avoid disease exacerbate such distancing (Mortensen et al., 2010; Park et al., 2003, 2007).”
How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes (2016, background): “objects’’ (Rozin and Fallon 1987, 23). A related line of research demonstrates that people have a bias for ‘natural’ products, believing them to be healthier, even when chemically identical to alternative products (Rozin et al. 2004, 2005). Among the variety of foods studied by Rozin et al. (2005), ”
Pathogens, personality, and culture: disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experience. (2008, background): “Much recent research has indicated that specific kinds of interpersonal prejudices result, in part, from the overactivation of psychological mechanisms that inhibit contact with people who appear to pose a high risk for the transmission of disease (Park, Faulkner, & Schaller, 2003; Park, Schaller, ”
Weight Bias and Stigma: Public Health Implications and Structural Solutions (2018, background): “Park, Schaller, and Crandall (2007) tested this theoretical model in two studies with undergraduate students.”
Danger, Disease, and the Nature of Prejudice(s) (2012, background): “In contrast, individuals who feel chronically vulnerable to disease show greater disgust-based prejudice against fat people and subjectively foreign immigrants, but not against subjectively familiar coalitional outgroups (Faulkner et al., 2004; Park et al., 2007).”
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, background): “…individuals perceive people who appear to pose an infection risk, they experience a unique form of prejudice—defined by the arousal of a particular emotional experience (disgust) and by the activation of specific kinds of cognitions into working memory (e.g., Park et al., 2007; Ryan et al., 2012).”
Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. (2009, background): “In a recent program of studies investigating whether obesity acts as a disease cue, Park, Schaller, and Crandall (2007) found that the more concern an individual reported about disease transmission, the more negative that individual’s reported attitudes toward obese people.”
The Evolution of Cognitive Bias (2015, background): “Individuals who tend to be more worried about disease threat have stronger implicit associations between infectious disease and both obesity and physical disability, and also have more negative attitudes toward obese and physically disabled people (Lieberman, Tybur, & Latner, 2012; Park et al., 2003”
Perceived vulnerability to disease: Development and validation of a 15-item self-report instrument (2009, methodology): “…to the transmission of infectious diseases and emotional discomfort in the presence of potential disease transmission, and has been included in several recent investigations (Faulkner et al., 2004; Hodson & Costello, 2007; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006; Park et al., 2003, 2007; Welling et al., 2007).”
The social impact of pathogen threat: How disease salience influences conformity (2012, background): “Existing research focuses on selective sociality including social behavior and attitudes as pathogen defenses against out-group members (Faulkner et al., 2004; Park et al., 2007).”