Disease-avoidant behaviour and its consequences

Psychology and Health

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 491-506

  Kouznetsova, Daria ^a   Stevenson, Richard J ^a   Oaten, Megan J ^a   Case, Trevor I ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

contagion; disease avoidance; evolution; infection; stigmatisation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL STIGMA;

AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859348897     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2011.603424     Document Type: Article

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