Sex, germs, and health: pathogen-avoidance motives and health-protective behaviour.
Objective:Recent work suggests that the psychology of pathogen-avoidance has wide-reaching effects on how people interact with the world. These processes – part of what has been referred to as the behavioural immune system – are, in a way, our ‘evolved’ health psychology. However, scholars have scar...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Health Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. 959 - 976 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2016
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