Pathogen avoidance: Difference between revisions

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'''Pathogen avoidance''', also referred to as, '''parasite avoidance''', '''pathogen [[disgust]]''', refers to theory that the [[disgust]] response, in humans, is an adaptive system that guides behavior to avoid infection caused by parasites such as [[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], [[Fungus|fungi]], [[protozoa]], [[Helminth|helminth worms]], [[arthropod]]s and [[Social parasitism (biology)|social parasites]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sarabian|first=Cecile|last2=Curtis|first2=Val|last3=McMullan|first3=Rachel|date=2018-07-19|title=Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0256|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|language=en|volume=373|issue=1751|pages=20170256|doi=10.1098/rstb.2017.0256|issn=0962-8436|pmc=6000144|pmid=29866923}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Curtis|first=Val|last2=de Barra|first2=Mícheál|date=2018-07-19|title=The structure and function of pathogen disgust|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0208|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|language=en|volume=373|issue=1751|pages=20170208|doi=10.1098/rstb.2017.0208|issn=0962-8436|pmc=6000136|pmid=29866921}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=author.|first=Curtis, Valerie 1958-|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/935021890|title=Don't look, don't touch, don't eat the science behind revulsion|isbn=978-0-226-13133-7|oclc=935021890}}</ref> Pathogen avoidance is a psychological mechanism associated with the [[behavioral immune system]]. More specifically, Joshua M. Tybur outlines pathogen avoidance as one of the three domains of disgust which also include sexual disgust and moral disgust.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tybur|first=Joshua M.|last2=Lieberman|first2=Debra|last3=Kurzban|first3=Robert|last4=DeScioli|first4=Peter|date=2013-01-XX|title=Disgust: Evolved function and structure.|url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/a0030778|journal=Psychological Review|language=en|volume=120|issue=1|pages=65–84|doi=10.1037/a0030778|issn=1939-1471}}</ref>

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[[Category:Immunology]]

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[[Category:Behavioral ecology]]