Dirt, Disgust, and Disease: Is Hygiene in Our Genes?

By V. Curtis, A. Biran. Perspectives in biology and medicine, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Normative Bias and Adaptive Challenges: A Relational Approach to Coalitional Psychology and a Critique of Terror Management Theory (2005, background): “designed to prompt appropriate behavior in the face of adaptive challenges likely to have confronted our hunter-gatherer ancestors (Cosmides and Tooby, 2002; Curtis and Biran, 2001; Frank, 2001; Kirkpatrick, Waugh, Valencia, and Webster, 2002).”
Dissociation Following Traumatic Stress Etiology and Treatment (2010, background): “Fainting seems to be mediated through disgust (Curtis & Biran, 2001), which enables emotional responses to potentially infectious or noxious material in advance of actual contact with such material, to avoid pathogens and their toxins or invasive procedures (Marchiondo, 2010).”
Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting (2015, background): “Although we located some evidence that the link between blood and disgust is also present in non-western populations (India and possibly Burkina Faso, Curtis & Biran, 2001), we found no systematic study in traditional populations.”
Practical Work at School Reduces Disgust and Fear of Unpopular Animals (2012, neutral): “…(Prokop, Fančovičová, & Fedor, 2010; Prokop, Uşak, & Fančovičová, 2010a; Prokop, Uşak, & Fančovičová, 2010b; Oaten, Stevenson, & Case, 2009; Stevenson, Case, & Oaten, 2009; Tybur, Lieberman, & Griskevicius, 2009; Navarrete, Fessler, & Eng, 2007; Curtis, Aunger, & Rabie, 2004; Curtis & Biran, 2001).”
Regional variation in pathogen prevalence predicts endorsement of group-focused moral concerns (2012, background): “…by pathogens has led to the evolution not only of physiological defenses (e.g., the vertebrate immune system), but also of behavioral defenses that facilitate avoidance of pathogens (Curtis & Biran, 2001; Kurzban & Leary, 2001; Loehle, 1995; Møller, Dufva, & Allander, 1993; Schaller & Park, 2011).”
Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. (2009, background): “In a recent survey, Curtis and Biran (2001) described an association between transmission routes of infectious diseases and disgust elicitors.”
The insectivore’s dilemma, and how to take the West out of it (2015, methodology): “(e.g., Curtis & Biran, 2001; Davey et al., 1998; Prokop, Usak, & Fančovičová, 2010) but the set of insects considered and the methods that have been adopted mean that the evidence on this point remains weak.”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “doi:10.1016/ j.jesp.2008.12.008 Ackerman, J. M., Kenrick, D. T., & Schaller, M. (2007). Is friendship akin to kinship? Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 365–374. doi:10.1016/ j.evolhumbehav.2007.04.004 Andrews, P. W., & Thompson, J. A. (2009). The bright side of being blue: Depression as an adaptati”
Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle (2003, background): “If other aspects of disgust also perform a prophylactic function (Curtis & Biran, 2001; Wronska, 1990), then the same patterned variation should be evident in nonfood domains as well.”
The Power of Visual Material: Persuasion, Emotion and Identification (2008, background): “Disgust, a surprisingly under-explored emotion (Curtis and Biran, 2001), is one of the universal, basic emotions, alongside fear, happiness, sadness, anger and surprise (see Zajonc, 1998).”
Disgust: A predictor of social conservatism and prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuals (2010, neutral): “That is, disgust may be an ‘‘evolved disease avoidance mechanism” (Curtis & Biran, 2001; Faulkner, Schaller, Park, & Duncan, 2004; Navarrete & Fessler, 2006).”