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Health Is Associated With Antiparasite Behavior and Fear of Disease-Relevant Animals in Humans

Pavol Prokop, Jana Fančovičová a Peter Fedor

Health Is Associated With Antiparasite Behavior and Fear of Disease-Relevant Animals in Humans (P. Prokop, J. Fančovičová, P. Fedor, 2010) - prvá stránka

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Autori: Pavol Prokop, Jana Fančovičová a Peter Fedor
Názov: Health Is Associated With Antiparasite Behavior and Fear of Disease-Relevant Animals in Humans

Sekcia: Publikácie
Typ: Článok

Posledná aktualizácia: 4.11.2011

Krátky popis

Evolutionary arms races between humans and parasites resulted in a set of behavioral adaptations that serve as parasite-avoidance mechanisms.We investigated associations among reported health of the respondent, antiparasite behavior, and sensitivity to disgust and fear of disease-relevant and irrelevant animals. Ninety-seven participants (15–19 years old) rated their fear and disgust at 25 colorful pictures of disease-relevant and disease-irrelevant invertebrates. Consistent with previous work, we found that participants reported greater fear and disgust of diseaserelevant invertebrates relative to disease-irrelevant invertebrates. Better perceived health correlated with lower fear of disease-relevant invertebrates. Sensitivity to disgust correlated with reported antiparasite behaviors. Contrary to expectations, we found a positive correlation between antiparasite behavior and reported health, which suggests that antiparasite behavior influences perceived health (but not vice versa), and we found that males perform more antiparasite behaviors than females. These results support the idea that disgust and fear of disease-relevant objects are adaptive emotions that prevent contact with contagious objects, especially in individuals with low perceived health.

Detaily

Časopis: Ecological Psychology
Vydavateľ: Taylor & Francis Group
Číslo: 22:222–237, 2010
DOI: 10.1080/10407413.2010.496676
Stránky: 222-237
Jazyk: anglický

Kľúčové slová

Antiparasite Behavior, environmental education

Bibliografický odkaz

Prokop, Pavol , Fančovičová, Jana and Fedor, Peter(2010) 'Health Is Associated With Antiparasite Behavior and Fear of Disease-Relevant Animals in Humans', Ecological Psychology, 22: 3, 222 — 237

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Taylor & Francis Group

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Vydanie tejto publikáciie podporili granty KEGA 3/7454/09 a VEGA 1/0137/11.

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Krajina
Ochrana prírody
Biodiverzita
Environmentálne problémy
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