The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach

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The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, background): “Although Aunger and Curtis (2013) characterize the difference between parasitic threats and other threats as being one of location—outside the body versus inside the body—the functional distinction that matters most is not the location of attack, per se.”
The Behavioral Immune System (2015, background): “…more recently that behavioral scientists, explicitly informed by the logical principles of evolutionary psychology, have identified a psychologically unique motivational system facilitating behavioral avoidance of pathogen infection (Aunger & Curtis, 2013; Bernard, 2012; Neuberg, et al., 2011).”
Evolution and human motivation: A fundamental motives framework (2017, background): “…populations and that appear to be functionally discrete—attuned to different categories of stimuli that, when perceived, trigger different kinds of affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses (e.g., Aunger & Curtis, 2013; Bernard, 2012; Kenrick, Griskevicius, Neuberg, & Schaller, 2010).”