Behavioral immune system and ingroup derogation: the effects of infectious diseases on ingroup derogation attitudes.

From evolutionary reasoning, we derived a novel hypothesis that ingroup derogation is an evolved response of behavioral immune system which follows the smoke detector principle and the functional flexibility principle. This hypothesis was tested and supported across three experiments. In Experiment...

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Main Authors: Qi Wu, Chuan Tan, Bo Wang, Ping Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122794