The Behavioral Immune System is a psychological construct that functions as a proactive, non-conscious set of cognitive and affective mechanisms evolved to detect and motivate avoidance of potential sources of infectious disease in the environment.
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Chad R. Mortensen, D. Vaughn Becker, Joshua M. Ackerman et al. · Psychological Science · 2010 · 408 citations
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