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Daniel M. T. Fessler
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 159
Citations - 8287
Daniel M. T. Fessler is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Disgust & Morality. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 151 publications receiving 7292 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel M. T. Fessler include Hofstra University & University of California.
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Nobody's watching? Subtle cues affect generosity in an anonymous economic game.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted five dictator games, manipulating both auditory cues of the presence of others and visual cues (via the presentation of stylized eyespots) to explore how subtle cues of observability impact prosocial behavior.
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Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: the effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes
TL;DR: Faulkner et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the relationship between disease threat and intergroup attitudes and found that ethnocentric attitudes increase as a function of perceived disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity.
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Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that witnessing another person’s altruistic behavior elicits elevation, a discrete emotion that, in turn, leads to tangible increases in altruism.
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Angry men and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of emotions on risk taking
TL;DR: The authors showed that despite having similar appraisal tendencies, anger and disgust would have opposite effects on risk taking, since anger functions to deter transgression through aggression, while disgust functions to ward off contamination; an evolutionary perspective also led them to predict sex differences in these effects.
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Elevated disgust sensitivity in the first trimester of pregnancy: Evidence supporting the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that first trimester women remain more easily disgusted in the food domain even after controlling for the greater incidence of nausea, and this pattern is not simply a consequence of elevated nausea during pregnancy.