Pathogen avoidance
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Pathogen avoidance
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Pathogen avoidance, also referred to as, parasite avoidance or pathogen disgust, refers to the theory that the disgust response, in humans, is an adaptive system that guides behavior to avoid infection caused by parasites such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, helminth worms, arthropods and social parasites. Pathogen avoidance is a psychological mechanism associated with the behavioral immune system. Pathogen avoidance has been discussed as one of the three domains of disgust which also inc
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Disgust response that guides human behavior
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen_avoidance
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2024-04-04T00:17:45Z
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