Zoonotic and Non-Zoonotic Diseases in Relation to Human Personality and Societal Values: Support for the Parasite-Stress Model

The parasite-stress model of human sociality proposes that humans' ontogenetic experiences with infectious diseases as well as their evolutionary historical interactions with these diseases exert causal influences on human psychology and social behavior. This model has been supported by cross-n...

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Main Authors: Randy Thornhill, Corey L. Fincher, Damian R. Murray, Mark Schaller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800201