Presentation Year

2024

Depreciated Participant

Amanda Hahn Psychology Faculty amanda.hahn@humboldt.edu

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Infectious diseases pose a significant threat to an organism’s fitness and have been a strong selective pressure throughout human evolution. Although we have evolved a sophisticated biological response to pathogenic threat, it can be quite costly to engage the physiological immune system. The Behavioral Immune System encompasses a suite of psychological mechanisms that bias our cognitions and behaviors to facilitate pathogen avoidance. The potential link between the behavioral and physiological immune systems in relatively understudied. The current study aimed to replicate and extend previous work on this link by introducing an additional live pathogenic cue (a "sick" confederate).

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Yes

Primary Contact: First Name

Povheng

Primary Contact: Last Name

Yam

Primary Contact: Email

py22@humboldt.edu

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Graduate Student

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7078263679

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1479

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