Mental Representations of Sickness Positively Relate to Adaptive Health Behaviors
An ecological approach to social perception states that impressions of faces have functional value in that they guide adaptive behavior ensuring people's survival. For example, people may avoid others whose faces appear sick to avoid an illness representing a survival threat. We broadened the e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049221109452 |