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Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes

Faulkner, Jason, Schaller, Mark, Park, Justin H., Duncan, Lesley A.·2004·Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
DOI 10.1177/1368430204046142
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Abstract

From evolutionary psychological reasoning, we derived the hypothesis that chronic and contextually aroused feelings of vulnerability to disease motivate negative reactions to foreign peoples. The hypothesis was tested and supported across four correlational studies: chronic disease worries predicted implicit cognitions associating foreign outgroups with danger, and also predicted less positive attitudes toward foreign (but not familiar) immigrant groups. The hypothesis also received support in two experiments in which the salience of contagious disease was manipulated: participants under high disease-salience conditions expressed less positive attitudes toward foreign (but not familiar) immigrants and were more likely to endorse policies that would favor the immigration of familiar rather than foreign peoples. These results reveal a previously under-explored influence on xenophobic attitudes, and suggest interesting linkages between evolved disease-avoidance mechanisms and contemporary social cognition.

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Authors
Faulkner, J., Schaller, M., Park, J. H., & Duncan, L. A.
Affiliations
University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
Faulkner, Jason
ORCID
Venue
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2004-10
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
333-353
ISSN
  • 1368-4302 (ISSN-L)
  • 1461-7188
DOI
10.1177/1368430204046142
OpenAlex
W2114038289
Cited by
845
References
59
Citations by year
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FWCI
17.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (publishedVersion)
  • Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Keywords
xenophobia, xenophobic attitudes, disease avoidance, evolved psychological mechanisms, outgroup threat, implicit cognition, attitudes toward immigrants, immigration policy attitudes, social cognition, intergroup relations

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