Selected Publications
Read our work to understand how disease threats shape behavior.
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Tybur, J. M., Croijmans, I. M., van Huijstee, D., Çınar, Ç., Lal, V., & Smeets, M. A. M. (2022)
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 43, 284-295.
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Tybur, J. M., Fan, L., Jones, B. C., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., & DeBruine, L. M. (2022)
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 43, 212-223.
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Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D., Fan, L., Kupfer, T., & De Vries, R. E. (2020).
Behavioral immune tradeoffs: Interpersonal value relaxes social-pathogen avoidance.
Psychological Science, 31, 1211-1221.
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Tybur, J. M., Wesseldijk, L. W., & Jern, P. (2020).
Genetic and environmental influences on disgust proneness, contamination sensitivity, and their covariance.
Clinical Psychological Science, 8, 1054-1061.
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Molho, C., Tybur, J. M., Van Lange, P. A. M., & Balliet, D. P. (2020).
Direct and indirect punishment of norm violations in daily life.
Nature Communications, 11, 1-9.
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Karinen, A. K., Molho, C., Kupfer, T. R., & Tybur, J. M. (2019).
Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration: Does contact avoidance or resistance to foreign norms explain the relationship?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 103817.
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Tybur, J. M., Çınar, C., Karinen, A. K., & Perone, P. (2018).
Why do people vary in disgust?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373, 20170203.
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Molho, C., Tybur, J. M., Güler, E., Balliet, D., & Hofmann, W. (2017).
Disgust and anger relate to different aggressive responses to moral violations.
Psychological Science, 28, 609-619.
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Balliet, D., Tybur, J. M., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2017).
Functional Interdependence Theory: An evolutionary account of social situations.
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21, 361-388.
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De Vries, R. E., Tybur, J. M., Pollet, T. V., & van Vugt, M. (2016).
Evolution, situational affordances, and the HEXACO model of personality.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 407-421.
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Sherlock, J.M., Zietsch, B.P., Tybur, J.M., & Jern, P. (2016).
The quantitative genetics of disgust sensitivity.
Emotion, 16, 43-51.
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Tybur, J. M., Inbar, Y., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., Barlow, F. K., de Barra, M.,… Žeželj, I. (2016).
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 12408-12413.
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Tybur, J.M., & Lieberman, D. (2016).
Human pathogen avoidance adaptations.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 6-11.
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Tybur, J. M., Inbar, Y., Güler, E., & Molho, C. (2015).
Is the relationship between pathogen avoidance and ideological conservatism explained by sexual strategies?
Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 489-497.
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Tybur, J. M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Pollet, T. V. (2014).
Behavioral immune system methods: Surveying the present to shape the future.
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 8, 274-283.
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Tybur, J. M., & De Vries, R. E. (2013).
Disgust sensitivity and the HEXACO model of personality.
Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 660-665.
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Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D., Kurzban, R., & DeScioli, P. (2013).
Disgust: Evolved function and structure.
Psychological Review, 120, 65-84.
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Tybur, J. M., Bryan, A. D., & Caldwell Hooper, A. E. (2012).
An evolutionary perspective on health psychology: New approaches and applications.
Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 855-867.
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Tybur, J. M., Bryan, A. D., Lieberman, D., Caldwell Hooper, A. E., & Merriman, L. A. (2011).
Sex differences and sex similarities in disgust sensitivity.
Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 343-348.
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Tybur, J. M., Bryan, A. D., & Caldwell Hooper, A. E. (2012).
An evolutionary perspective on health psychology: New approaches and applications.
Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 855-867.
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Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D. L., & Griskevicius, V. G. (2009).
Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 29, 103-122.
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Tybur, J. M., Miller, G. F., & Gangestad, S. G. (2007).
Testing the controversy: An empirical examination of adaptationists' political attitudes.
Human Nature, 18, 313-328.
