Parasite primes make foreign-accented English sound more distant to people who are disgusted by pathogens (but not by sex or morality)

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 471-478

  Reid, Scott A ^a   Zhang, Jinguang ^a   Anderson, Grace L ^b   Gasiorek, Jessica ^a   Bonilla, Douglas ^a   Peinado, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease avoidance hypothesis; Disgust; Language; Pathogenic stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865307379     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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