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Failed Experiment ReportMedicine

Testing the effects of pathogen threat and sexual strategies on political ideology.

Shook NJ; Oosterhoff B · 2020 · Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

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Abstract (excerpt)

Disgust has been consistently associated with greater political conservatism. Two explanations have been proposed for this link. According to a pathogen threat model, disgust serves a pathogen-avoidance function, encouraging more…

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Metadata source: Europe PMC · DOI 10.1017/pls.2020.19