Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations

• Main Authors: Tybur, J.M., Inbar, Y., Aaroe, L., Barclay, P., Barlow, F.K., de Barra, M., Becker, D.V., Borovoi, L., Choi, I., Choi, J.A., Consedine, N.S., Conway, A., Conway, J.R., LI, Norman P., YONG, Jose C., Demirci, D.E., Fernandez, A.M., Ferreira, D.C.S., Ishii, K., Jaksic, I.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: political ideology; pathogens; disgust; culture; evolutionary psychology; Applied Behavior Analysis; Multicultural Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2026; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3283/viewcontent/12408.full.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3283/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/pnas.1607398113.sapp.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3283/filename/1/type/additional/viewcontent/pnas.1607398113.sd01.xls
• Institution: Singapore Management University

People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent hypotheses that have been proposed as explanations for these relationships. The first, which is an intragroup account, holds that t...