Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies.
Social living brings humans great rewards, but also associated dangers, such as increased risk of infection from others. Although the body’s immune system is integral to combating disease, it is physiologically costly. Less costly are evolved mechanisms for promoting avoidance of people who are pote...
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| author | Ackerman, Joshua Mortensen, Chad R. Becker, D. Vaughn Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. |
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| author_facet | Sloan School of Management Ackerman, Joshua Mortensen, Chad R. Becker, D. Vaughn Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. |
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| description | Social living brings humans great rewards, but also associated dangers, such as increased risk of infection from others. Although the body’s immune system is integral to combating disease, it is physiologically costly. Less costly are evolved mechanisms for promoting avoidance of people who are potentially infectious, such as perceiving oneself as less social and increasing the tendency to make avoidant movements. In Experiment 1, exposure to a disease prime led participants to rate themselves as less extraverted than did exposure to a control prime, and led participants high in perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD) to rate themselves as less agreeable and less open to experience than did exposure to a control prime. In Experiment 2, a disease prime facilitated avoidant tendencies in arm movements when participants viewed photographs of faces, especially for participants high in PVD. Together, these findings reveal functional changes in perception and behavior that would serve to promote avoidance of potentially infectious individuals. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/677062022-10-01T23:01:35Z Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies. Ackerman, Joshua Mortensen, Chad R. Becker, D. Vaughn Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. Sloan School of Management Ackerman, Joshua M. Ackerman, Joshua M. Social living brings humans great rewards, but also associated dangers, such as increased risk of infection from others. Although the body’s immune system is integral to combating disease, it is physiologically costly. Less costly are evolved mechanisms for promoting avoidance of people who are potentially infectious, such as perceiving oneself as less social and increasing the tendency to make avoidant movements. In Experiment 1, exposure to a disease prime led participants to rate themselves as less extraverted than did exposure to a control prime, and led participants high in perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD) to rate themselves as less agreeable and less open to experience than did exposure to a control prime. In Experiment 2, a disease prime facilitated avoidant tendencies in arm movements when participants viewed photographs of faces, especially for participants high in PVD. Together, these findings reveal functional changes in perception and behavior that would serve to promote avoidance of potentially infectious individuals. 2011-12-16T19:32:45Z 2011-12-16T19:32:45Z 2010-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0956-7976 1467-9280 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67706 Mortensen, C. R. et al. “Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies.” Psychological Science 21 (2010): 440-447. Web. 16 Dec. 2011. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797610361706 Psychological Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press Ackerman via Alex Caracuzzo |
| spellingShingle | Ackerman, Joshua Mortensen, Chad R. Becker, D. Vaughn Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies. |
| title | Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies. |
| title_full | Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies. |
| title_fullStr | Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies. |
| title_short | Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies. |
| title_sort | infection breeds reticence the effects of disease salience on self perceptions of personality and behavioral avoidance tendencies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67706 |
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