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

A prominent theory in political psychology contends that individual differences in negativity
bias explain political ideology: people who are more sensitive to negative stimuli find solace …

After drawing a distinction between “class” and “status,” an early but short-lived sociological
literature on status politics is reviewed. That approach has lost favor, but moral foundations …

Intergroup biases are widespread across cultures and time. The current study tests an
existing hypothesis that has been proposed to explain such biases: the mind has evolved to …

This interdisciplinary study, coupling philosophy of law with empirical cognitive science,
presents preliminary insight into the role of emotion in criminalization decisions, for both …

Individuals who are more motivated to avoid pathogenic infection tend to be more opposed
to immigrants. Explanations for this relation emphasize lack of familiarity, with people who …

What environmental factors are associated with individual differences in political ideology,
and do such associations change over time? We examine whether reductions in pathogen …

Author profiling, or classifying user generated content based on demographic or other
personal attributes, is a key task in social media-based research. Whilst high-accuracy has …

Motivations to avoid infectious disease seem to influence prejudice toward some groups,
including groups not explicitly associated with infectious disease. The standard explanation …

Multiple proposals suggest that xenophobia increases when infectious disease threats are
salient. The current longitudinal study tested this hypothesis by examining whether and how …