Florian van Leeuwen

TL;DR: The authors found that higher perceptions of social dangers and greater emphases on the binding moral foundations (relative to the individualizing foundations) were associated with explicitly and implicitly measured conservatism, and there was evidence that a "conservative pattern" of moral attitudes mediates the relationship between perceived social danger and political conservatism.

TL;DR: It is found that national parasite stress and individual disgust sensitivity relate more strongly to adherence to traditional norms than they relate to support for barriers between social groups, which suggests that the relationship between pathogens and politics reflects intragroup motivations more than intergroup motivations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined associations between historical and contemporary pathogen prevalence and endorsement of the moral foundations via multilevel analyses and found that even when controlling for gross domestic product per capita, historical (but not contemporary) pathogen prevalences significantly predicted endorsement of binding foundations, but not individualizing foundations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted between-subject experiments in large samples of adult residents of the USA (N=1615) and India (n=1969) and found that the behavioral immune system simply motivates the avoidance of any infected individual regardless of their group membership.

TL;DR: Cross-cultural tests from 16 nations were performed to evaluate the hypothesis that the emotion of pride evolved to guide behavior to elicit valuation and respect from others, and predicted that the pride intensity for a given act or trait closely tracks the valuations of audiences.