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| Mark SchallerSummaryAffiliation: University of British Columbia Country: Canada Publications
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Beyond prejudice to prejudicesMark Schaller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Behav Brain Sci 35:445-6. 2012..It is important to carefully consider the threat-based psychology of prejudice(s) before implementing any strategy intended to promote positive social change...- Mechanisms by which parasites influence cultures, and why they matterMark Schaller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Behav Brain Sci 35:91-2. 2012..Rigorous research on specific mediating mechanisms is required to more completely articulate implications of parasite stress on human psychology and human culture... - Pathogens, personality, and culture: disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experienceMark Schaller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:212-21. 2008..Alternative explanations are addressed, and possible underlying mechanisms are discussed... 
The behavioural immune system and the psychology of human socialityMark Schaller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:3418-26. 2011....- Mere visual perception of other people's disease symptoms facilitates a more aggressive immune responseMark Schaller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Psychol Sci 21:649-52. 2010..These results provide the first empirical evidence that visual perception of other people's symptoms may cause the immune system to respond more aggressively to infection. Adaptive origins and functional implications are discussed... 
Selective pressures on the once and future contents of ethnic stereotypes: effects of the communicability of traitsMark Schaller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 82:861-77. 2002..Results supported the hypotheses. A communication-based analysis of stereotypes appears helpful in predicting persistence and change in the contents of stereotypes of real groups in the real world...- Fear of the dark: interactive effects of beliefs about danger and ambient darkness on ethnic stereotypesMark Schaller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:637-49. 2003..Conceptual implications are discussed... - Psychology and cultureDarrin R Lehman
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Annu Rev Psychol 55:689-714. 2004..Cross-cultural research has greatly enriched psychology, and key issues for continued growth and maturation of the field of cultural psychology are articulated... - Pathogens and politics: further evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianismDamian R Murray
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PLoS ONE 8:e62275. 2013.... - On the origins of cultural differences in conformity: four tests of the pathogen prevalence hypothesisDamian R Murray
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 37:318-29. 2011..73, n=20). Additional analyses address plausible alternative causal explanations. Discussion focuses on plausible underlying mechanisms (e.g., genetic, developmental, cognitive)... - Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivismCorey L Fincher
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 275:1279-85. 2008..These results help to explain the origin of a paradigmatic cross-cultural difference, and reveal previously undocumented consequences of pathogenic diseases on the variable nature of human societies... - When authorities' commands backfire: attributions about consensus and effects on deviant decision makingLucian Gideon Conway
Department of Psychology, Indiana State University, IN, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:311-26. 2005.... - Functional projection: how fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perceptionJon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:63-78. 2005..Additionally, participants with chronic self-protective and mate-search goals exhibited similar biases. Findings are consistent with a functionalist, motivation-based account of interpersonal perception... - Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem"Jon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:42-55. 2007....