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“Touch Me If You Can!”: Individual Differences in Disease Avoidance and Social Touch
Evolutionary Psychology ( IF 1.738 ) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 , DOI: 10.1177/14747049211056159
Gaëtan Thiebaut 1 , Alain Méot 2 , Arnaud Witt 1 , Pavol Prokop 3, 4 , Patrick Bonin 1
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The threat of diseases varies considerably among individuals, and it has been found to be linked to various proactive or reactive behaviors. In the present studies, we investigated the impact of individual differences in the perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD) on social touch before (Study 1) or during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (Study 2). We also investigated the influence of personality traits in the covariation between these two dimensions. We found that people who are the most disease-avoidant are also the most reluctant to touching or being touched by others (and this relationship holds when personality traits are taken into account). Interestingly, the association between PVD and social touch increased during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with a few months before. By showing that the fear of contamination has an association with social touch, the findings provide further evidence for the behavioral immune system ( Schaller and Park, 2011), a psychological system acting as a first line of defense against pathogens.



中文翻译:

“如果可以的话,请触摸我!”:避免疾病和社交接触的个体差异

疾病的威胁因人而异,并且被发现与各种主动或反应行为有关。在本研究中,我们调查了在 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 大流行之前(研究 1)或期间(研究 2),感知疾病脆弱性 (PVD) 的个体差异对社交接触的影响。我们还研究了人格特质对这两个维度之间的协变的影响。我们发现,最能避免疾病的人也最不愿意触摸或被他人触摸(当考虑到人格特质时,这种关系成立)。有趣的是,与几个月前相比,在 COVID-19 大流行期间,PVD 和社交接触之间的关联有所增加。通过表明对污染的恐惧与社交接触有关,研究结果为行为免疫系统提供了进一步的证据(Schaller 和 Park,2011),这是一种充当抵御病原体第一道防线的心理系统。

更新日期:2021-12-07
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