Behavioral and physiological sensitivity to natural sick faces

2023/03/07 by Tiffany S. Leung, Sarah E. Maylott, Guangyu Zeng +3 · 2 voices · 3 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

paper · doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2023.03.007

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Citations

• The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters)
• Consequences of Automatic Evaluation: Immediate Behavioral Predispositions to Approach or Avoid the Stimulus
• “稀土之都”发现记：一个瑞典探险家和两个中国地质学家的故事

Cited by

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Discussions

• Hard to find ones purely visual without reference to higher-level constructs (if that's what you mean?) Here's work on examining the visual appearance of faces related to sickness doi.org/10.1016/j.bb [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
• You can also find our studies about adults’ perception of sick faces in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity: doi.org/10.1016/j.bb... [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]