Infectious disease threatens humans across cultures and time periods. The mental
mechanisms that have evolved to navigate this threat can have non-intuitive consequences …

Immunocompetence and reproduction are among the most important determinants of fitness.
However, energetic and metabolic constraints create conflict between these two life-history …

Animals often mount complex immune responses to infections. Aside from cellular and
molecular defense mechanisms, animals can alter their behavior in response to infection by …

Disgust is considered to be a fundamental affective state associated with triggering the
behavioral avoidance of infection and parasite/pathogen threat. In humans, and other …

Behavioural Defences Against Parasites Across Host Social Structures Page 1 Chapman
University Chapman University Digital Commons Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental …

While infection and perceived infection risk can influence social and reproductive behavior
in several taxa, relatively little is known about how infection specifically affects pair bond …

Emerging infectious fungal diseases are responsible for the extinction of myriad species
across a range of phyla. As recently shown by the COVID-19 pandemic, social transmission …

Background and objectives Body odor conveys information about health status to
conspecifics and influences approach-avoidance behaviors in animals. Experiments that …

During COVID-19 pandemic several public health measures were implemented by diverse
countries to reduce the risk of COVID-19, including social distancing. Here we collected the …

The reliance on chemical communication is well established for evading predation in
aquatic systems. Only a few studies have found evidence that chemical cues released from …