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I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures
Tekijät: Ackerman, Joshua M.; Samore, Theodore; Fessler, Daniel M.T.; Kupfer, Tom R.; Choi, Soyeon; Merrell, Wilson N.; Aarøe, Lene; Aavik, Toivo; Acabado, Stephen; Akello, Grace; Alfian, Ilham N.; Al-Shawaf, Laith; Alvarez, Marinés M.; Ammann, Jeanine; Arikan, Gizem; Asha, Saiyeda A.; Astobiza, Anibal M.; Baeza-Ugarte, Carmen G.; Barclay, Pat; Barlow, Fiona Kate; Bizarro, Lisiane; Bressan, Paola; Castellanos-Chacón, Andres; Choy, Bryan K.C.; Chusairi, Achmad; Contreras-Garduño, Jorge; Chávez, Cosamalón Brenda L.; Costa-Neves, Bernardo; De, Mallika; de, Lima Tiago J.S.; de, Zoysa Piyanjali; Dryžaitė, Ieva; Elbæk, Christian T.; Fedor, Peter; Fernández, Ana M.; Fernandez-Morales, Regina; Fülöp, Márta; Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer Lado; Garcia-Gómez, Leonor; Garcia-Marques, Leonel; Garduño-Franco, Jimena; Pilar, Grazioso María del; Habacht, Fanny; Hasan, Youssef; Haugestad, Camila P.; Haugestad, Christian A.P.; Havlíček, Jan; Hernandez, Earl J.; Hoang, Vu M.; Hong, Minsung; Hromatko, Ivana; Iliško, Dzintra; Imada, Hirotaka; Jakšić, Ivana; Jarmakowski, Tomasz; Hjördísar, Jónsdóttir Harpa L.; Kajokaite, Kotrina; Kaňková, Šárka; Kervyn, Nicolas; Kim, Jinseok P.; Kunst, Jonas R.; Laakasuo, Michael; Leongómez, Juan David; Li, Norman P.; Lu, Junsong; Lynch, Nathan; Maegli, María A.; Manley, Harry; Marcu, Gabriela; McAfee, Thea; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Molnár, Nándor B.; Morvinski, Coby; Muhamad, Haslina; Nejat, Pegah; Huy, Hoang Nguyen; Oliveira, Angelica N.; Olsson, Mats J.; Onyishi, Charity N.; Onyishi, Ike E.; Orozco, Reegan; Otterbring, Tobias; Ottersen, Ida S.; Pacheco-López, Gustavo; Panagiotopoulou, Penny; Paniagua, Walter; Parvin, Roksana; Pavlović, Zoran; Prokop, Pavol; Raffman, Emma; Rizwan, Muhammad; Rojas, Sheila; Różycka-Tran, Joanna; Sánchez, Oscar R.; Selim, Heyla; Sevi, Barış; Shani, Yaniv; Shastry, Madhulika S.; Stieger, Stefan; Suh, Eunkook M.; Sumari, Melati; Takemura, Kosuke; Tognetti, Arnaud; Trombetta, Roberta Z.R.; Tybur, Joshua M.; Ucak, Eylul B.; Uchida, Yukiko; Valentova, Jaroslava V.; Viciana, Hugo; Visine, Amandine; Wang, Jin; Wang, XT (XiaoTian); Yahiiaiev, Illia I.; Zein, Rizqy A.; Žeželj, Iris
Kustantaja: Elsevier BV
Julkaisuvuosi: 2025
Journal: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Vuosikerta: 128
Aloitussivu: 737
Lopetussivu: 750
ISSN: 0889-1591
eISSN: 1090-2139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020
Verkko-osoite: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020
Identifying cues to contagious disease is critical for effectively tracking and defending against interpersonal infection threats. People hold lay beliefs about the types of sensory information most relevant for identifying whether others are sick with transmissible illnesses. Are these beliefs universal, or do they vary along cultural and ecological dimensions? Participants in 58 countries (N = 19,217) judged how effective, and how likely they were to use, cues involving each of the five major sensory modalities in an imagined social interaction during a flu outbreak. Belief patterns were strongly consistent across countries (sight > audition > touch > smell > taste), suggesting a largely universal conceptualization of the role of sensory information for interpersonal respiratory disease detection. Results also support a safe senses hypothesis, with perceivers reporting that they would use senses that function at a distance—and thus reduce pathogen transmission risk—more than would be expected given participants’ beliefs as to the efficacy of these senses for disease detection. Where societal variation did emerge, it was captured by a cohesive set of socio-ecological factors, including human development, latitude, pathogen prevalence, and population density. Together, these findings reveal a shared lens through which contagious respiratory disease is assessed, one that prioritizes minimizing risk to perceivers, and may offer leverage for designing interventions to improve public health.
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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant 2134796, PI: Ackerman). T.S. benefited from support by the Templeton Religion Trust/Issachar Fund project “Science and Religion: An Evolutionary Perspective” (grant 59972) while this research was conducted. In Uganda, G.A. was supported by the Global Challenges Research Grant (AH/S004025/1). In Mexico, G. P-L. received partial support from Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) institutional fund, as well as from the Humanities, Sciences, and Technologies Mexican Council (CONAHCYT, grant CAR 273553). In Czechia, JH and ŠK were supported by Czech Science Foundation (GAČR 24-10955S). We greatly appreciate the contributions of Ketika Garg, Tuire Korvuo, Irem Kuyucu, Ursula Serdarevich, and Ayushi Shukla to the project.
