Murray Damian R, Prokosch Marjorie L, Airington Zachary
Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Feb 7;10:200. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00200. eCollection 2019.
Although infectious disease has posed a significant and persistent threat to human survival and welfare throughout history, only recently have the psychological and behavioral implications of disease threat become a topic of research within the behavioral sciences. This growing body of work has revealed a suite of affective and cognitive processes that motivate the avoidance of disease-causing objects and situations-a cascade of processes loosely conceptualized as a "behavioral immune system (BIS)." Recent BIS research has linked disease threat to a surprisingly broad set of psychological and behavioral phenomena. However, research examining how the BIS is nested within our broader physiology is only beginning to emerge. Here, we review research that has begun to elucidate the physiological foundations of the BIS-at the levels of sensory modalities, cells, and genes. We also discuss the future of this work.
尽管传染病在历史上一直对人类的生存和福祉构成重大且持续的威胁，但直到最近，疾病威胁对心理和行为的影响才成为行为科学领域的一个研究课题。越来越多的这类研究揭示了一系列情感和认知过程，这些过程促使人们避开致病的物体和情境——这一连串过程被大致概念化为“行为免疫系统（BIS）”。最近关于行为免疫系统的研究已将疾病威胁与一系列惊人广泛的心理和行为现象联系起来。然而，探究行为免疫系统如何嵌套于我们更广泛的生理系统中的研究才刚刚起步。在此，我们回顾已开始阐明行为免疫系统在感官模式、细胞和基因层面的生理基础的研究。我们还将讨论这项工作的未来发展。
