Dirt, Disgust, and Disease: Is Hygiene in Our Genes?

2001/12/01 by Valérie Curtis, Adam Biran · 651 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Medicine · #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Emotions and Moral Behavior #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Disgust #Dirt #Psychology #Sight #Disease #Social psychology #Psychoanalysis #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Medicine #Biology #Ecology #Pathology

paper · doi:10.1353/pbm.2001.0001

published in Perspectives in biology and medicine 44(1), 17-31 (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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Abstract

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2001

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