Self-protection versus disease avoidance

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-23

  Prokop, Pavol ^a,b   Fančovičová, Jana ^a  

^a TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Institute of Zoology   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

disease avoidance; disgust; fear; predation; self protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873887536     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000092     Document Type: Article

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