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Pavol Prokop

Researcher at Comenius University in Bratislava

Publications -  216
Citations -  7507

Pavol Prokop is an academic researcher from Comenius University in Bratislava. The author has contributed to research in topics: Disgust & Nest. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 196 publications receiving 6534 citations. Previous affiliations of Pavol Prokop include Spanish National Research Council & University of Trnava.

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Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries

Daniel Conroy-Beam, +111 more
- 15 Nov 2019 - 
TL;DR: This work combines this large cross-cultural sample with agent-based models to compare eight hypothesized models of human mating markets and finds that this cross-culturally universal pattern of mate choice is most consistent with a Euclidean model of mate preference integration.
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"Disgusting" Animals: Primary School Children's Attitudes and Myths of Bats and Spiders

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a novel approach with two questionnaires with nearly identical items for identifying attitudes to bats and spiders in a sample of primary school participants (N = 196) aged 10 - 16 years.
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Effects of Having Pets at Home on Children's Attitudes toward Popular and Unpopular Animals

TL;DR: Having pets at home was associated with more positive attitudes to, and better knowledge of, both popular and unpopular animals, and girls were less favorably inclined than boys to animals that may pose a threat, danger, or disease to them.
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Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations

Joshua M. Tybur, +43 more
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.
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Is Biology Boring? Student Attitudes toward Biology.

TL;DR: This paper examined the interests and attitudes of school students toward biology: through their interest in out-of-school activities and their attitude towards lessons as measured by interest, importance and difficulty.