The Behavioral Immune System

By Mark Schaller. 2015

143 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8c8eb68c394a280de76f97ffdd69640c175c9381

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Damian R. Murray
2. Mark Schaller
3. Steven L. Neuberg
4. D. Kenrick
5. Rebecca Neel
6. Ronald Fischer
7. A. Bardi
8. Justin H. Park

In Social Psychology

1. Mark Schaller
2. Damian R. Murray
3. Steven L. Neuberg
4. D. Kenrick
5. Rebecca Neel
6. Maya Benish‐Weisman
7. Julie A. Lee
8. Ronald Fischer

Citations in the corpus

• The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, background): “body of research on a motivational system that appears to have evolved as a means of facilitating behavioral prophylaxis against infectious diseases—a sort of “behavioral immune system” (Schaller, 2016; Schaller & Park, 2011).”
• Evolution and human motivation: A fundamental motives framework (2017, background): “Ample evidence attests to that conceptual distinction (Murray & Schaller, 2016).”
• Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times (2021, background): “These changes can result from a behavioral immune system (Schaller, 2015), enhancing group divisions to reduce the exposure to life-threatening organisms.”