Balancing Competing Motives: Adaptive Trade-Offs Are Necessary to Satisfy Disease Avoidance and Interpersonal Affiliation Goals

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1611-1623

  Sacco, Donald F ^a   Young, Steven G ^b   Hugenberg, Kurt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral immune system; motivation; social exclusion; social perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911111666     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214552790     Document Type: Article

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