Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: the effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 270-282

  Navarrete, Carlos David ^a   Fessler, Daniel M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Disgust sensitivity; Fear of death; In group; Intergroup bias; Out group; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744921101     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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