期刊
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
卷 30, 期 5, 页码 363-368出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.02.005
关键词
Disgust; Contamination; Disease avoidance
资金
- Australian Research Council
Both disgust and contamination sensitivity likely evolved to protect us from infectious disease. Paradoxically, disgust may be reduced by frequent exposure to disgust-inducing cues - cues most likely to occur in disease-rich environments. In this study, we examined whether more frequent or recent illness might act to reverse this process. To test this, we surveyed 616 adults, obtaining illness frequency and recency data, disgust and contamination sensitivity, and a variety of control measures. Heightened contamination sensitivity was associated with more frequent infectious illness, but not with recency of infection. We also found that participants who had heightened contamination sensitivity and who were also more disgust sensitive had significantly fewer recent infections. These findings suggest that frequent illness may up-regulate contamination sensitivity potentially counteracting the effects of exposure on disgust. More importantly, these data provide the first direct evidence of a protective effect of contamination and disgust, against infectious disease. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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