The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions

JM Ackerman, SE Hill, DR Murray - Social and Personality …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The behavioral immune system is a motivational system that helps minimize infection risk by
changing cognition, affect, and behavior in ways that promote pathogen avoidance. In the …

Human threat management systems: Self-protection and disease avoidance

SL Neuberg, DT Kenrick, M Schaller - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2011 - Elsevier
Humans likely evolved precautionary systems designed to minimize the threats to
reproductive fitness posed by highly interdependent ultrasociality. A review of research on …

The impact of COVID-19 epidemic declaration on psychological consequences: a study on active Weibo users

S Li, Y Wang, J Xue, N Zhao, T Zhu - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) has significantly resulted in a large number of
psychological consequences. The aim of this study is to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on …

Personality traits, risk perception, and protective behaviors of Arab residents of Qatar during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Abdelrahman - International journal of mental health and addiction, 2022 - Springer
Abstract During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, people in Qatar—similar to most countries
globally—were instructed by health authorities to adopt protective behaviors to avoid …

The gloom of the COVID-19 shock in the hospitality industry: A study of consumer risk perception and adaptive belief in the dark cloud of a pandemic

P Foroudi, SAH Tabaghdehi, R Marvi - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2021 - Elsevier
As the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads globally, the hospitality industry is at the heart
of implementing social distancing, a measure demonstrated to be effective in flattening the …

[HTML][HTML] Digitalization and entrepreneurial firms' resilience to pandemic crises: Evidence from COVID-19 and the German Mittelstand

TR Bürgel, MRW Hiebl, DI Pielsticker - Technological Forecasting and …, 2023 - Elsevier
While stressing the relevance of context, the organizational resilience literature has so far
not extensively examined resilience in times of healthcare crises such as the ongoing …

Threat of infectious disease during an outbreak: Influence on tourists' emotional responses to disadvantaged price inequality

K Zhang, Y Hou, G Li - Annals of Tourism Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has negatively influenced the global tourism industry.
Despite the documented negative impacts of diseases on tourism demand and people's …

COVID-19 and traumatic stress: The role of perceived vulnerability, COVID-19-related worries, and social isolation

G Boyraz, DN Legros, A Tigershtrom - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study was to propose and test two models to understand the
relationship between perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 (PVC) and COVID-19-related …

Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology

JR Hibbing, KB Smith, JR Alford - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014 - cambridge.org
Disputes between those holding differing political views are ubiquitous and deep-seated,
and they often follow common, recognizable lines. The supporters of tradition and stability …

The influence of disease cues on preference for typical versus atypical products

Y Huang, J Sengupta - Journal of consumer research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This article examines how exposure to disease-related cues influences consumers'
preference for typical (vs. atypical) product options. Merging insights from evolutionary …