Pandemic elevates sensitivity to moral disgust but not pathogen disgust

Abstract The behavioral immune system, with disgust as its motivational part, serves as the first line of defense in organisms’ protection against pathogens. Laboratory studies indicate that disgust sensitivity adaptively adjusts to simulated environmental threat, but whether disgust levels similarl...

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Main Authors: Dagmar Schwambergová, Šárka Kaňková, Jitka Třebická Fialová, Jana Hlaváčová, Jan Havlíček
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35375-2