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ABSTRACT: Supplementary information
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40806-022-00321-4.
SUBMITTER: Makhanova A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013740 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evolutionary psychological science 20220418 3
Pathogen avoidance has been linked to biases against various groups of people, including ethnic outgroups. The present research explored how a non-hypothetical pathogen threat associated with a specific foreign ecology may differentially prompt biases against different ethnic groups. Two studies used an experimental design to examine how the salience of the COVID-19 threat (in early 2020, before COVID-19 was labeled a pandemic) affected perceptions of targets from different racial groups. Study ...[more]