Progesterone's effects on the psychology of disease avoidance: Support for the compensatory behavioral prophylaxis hypothesis

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-275

  Fleischman, Diana S ^a   Fessler, Daniel M T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disgust; Human female; Immunity; Luteal phase; Menstrual cycle; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLASTOCYST; COMPULSION; CONCEPTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GROOMING; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTIVATION; NIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SANITATION; THINKING;

AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGESTERONE; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SALIVA; SELF CARE;

EID: 79951555910     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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