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Visual Perception of Moisture Is a Pathogen Detection Mechanism of the Behavioral Immune System

The behavioral immune system (BIS) includes perceptual mechanisms for detecting cues of contamination. Former studies have indicated that moisture has a disgusting property. Therefore, moisture could be a target for detecting contamination cues by the BIS. We conducted two experiments to examine the...

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Autores principales: Iwasa, Kazunori, Komatsu, Takanori, Kitamura, Ayaka, Sakamoto, Yuta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7031479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32116962
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00170