Human emotional evaluation of ancestral and modern threats: fear, disgust, and anger.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Animal and human ancestors developed complex physiological and behavioral response systems to cope with two types of threats: immediate physical harm from predators or conspecifics, triggering fear, and the risk of infections from parasites and pathogens leading to the evolution of the behavioral immune system with disgust as the key emotion. Integration of the evolutionary concepts of the fear module and behavioral immune systems has been infrequent, despite the significant survival advantages of disgust in various contexts. Studies comparing attention to ancestral and modern threats accompanied by fear have yielded ambiguous results and what qualifies as salient modern disgusting stimuli remains unclear. We do not know whether disgust or the behavioral immune system,

SUBMITTER: Peleskova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10794497 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature