Pathogens, personality, and culture: disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experience.

By Mark Schaller, Damian R. Murray. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2008

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

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Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. (2009, background): “As did Schaller and Murray (2008), we found a correlation between sexual behavior and disgust sensitivity but only for women.”
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions (2018, background): “…are also associated with more cautious and restrictive sexual attitudes and behaviors among those hoping to avoid infection (Murray et al., 2013; Schaller & Murray, 2008), but more sexual opportunism among those who perceive their own physiological immune functioning as insufficient for…”
Regional variation in pathogen prevalence predicts endorsement of group-focused moral concerns (2012, background): “…in a wide range of psychological and behavioral phenomena, including personality traits, cognitive abilities, religiosity, and societal values (e.g., Eppig, Fincher, & Thornhill, 2010, 2011; Fincher & Thornhill, 2008; Fincher, Thornhill, Murray & Schaller, 2008; Schaller & Murray, 2008).”
Differences in Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking Across 63 Countries (2017, background): “Extant work on examining the origins of collectivism would be a useful avenue for future research in this regard (see Phalet & Schönpflug, 2001; Schaller & Murray, 2008, for a discussion on intergenerational transmission, evolutionary, and social learning perspectives on collectivism).”
The Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic Declaration on Psychological Consequences: A Study on Active Weibo Users (2020, background): “, people did generate more negative emotions for self-protection [3,4].”
The Behavioral Immune System (2015, background): “…for plausible demographic and economic confounds and for other threats to human life, ecological variation in pathogen prevalence still predicts cross-cultural variation in extraversion, openness, conformity, and collectivism (Fincher et al., 2008; Murray et al., 2011; Schaller & Murray, 2008).”
Perceived vulnerability to disease: Development and validation of a 15-item self-report instrument (2009, background): “First, the negative correlations with the Sociosexual Orientation Inventory are consistent with research showing more restricted sexual behavior among populations with high prevalence of infectious disease ( Schaller & Murray, 2008 ).”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “…local pathogen levels appear to facultatively mediating a culture’s level of polygyny (Low 1990), fertility rate (Guégan et al. 2001), sociosexuality levels (Schaller and Murray 2008), expressed mate preferences (DeBruine et al. 2010; Moore et al. 2013), and degree of parental care (Quinlan 2007).”
Is the Relationship Between Pathogen Avoidance and Ideological Conservatism Explained by Sexual Strategies (2015, background): “Like others before us (Schaller & Murray, 2008; Murray et al., 2013), we suggest that investment in avoiding infectious disease also partially shapes sexual strategies.”
Perceived threat of infectious disease and its implications for sexual attitudes (2013, background): “…evidence is obliquely consistent with such a sex difference: In an analysis of nation-level mean values of pathogen prevalence and sexual attitudes, Schaller and Murray (2008) reported that in nations characterized by higher levels of disease-causing pathogens, people reported attitudes endorsing…”
Danger, Disease, and the Nature of Prejudice(s) (2012, positive): “…& Schaller, 2008; Mortensen, Becker, Ackerman, Neuberg, & Kenrick, 2010; Murray & Schaller, in press; Murray, Trudeau, & Schaller, 2011; Oaten, Stevenson, & Case, 2009; Schaller & Murray, 2008; Tybur, Bryan, Magnan, & Hooper, 2011; for reviews see Schaller, 2011, and Schaller & Murray, 2011).”
How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes (2016, background): “Bolstering the external validity and evolutionary logic behind this work, cross-cultural research has also demonstrated that infectious disease prevalence is associated with decreased sociability across societies, including lower levels of extraversion and openness to experience (Schaller and Murray”
Disgust: A predictor of social conservatism and prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuals (2010, background): “Disgust sensitivity and disease prevalence have been related to openness to experience and sociosexuality (Druschel & Sherman, 1999; Schaller & Murray, 2008).”