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@article{item_3652226,
title = {{I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures}},
author = {Ackerman, Joshua M. and Samore, Theodore and Fessler, Daniel M.T. and Kupfer, Tom R. and Choi, Soyeon and Merrell, Wilson N. and Aar{\o}e, Lene and Aavik, Toivo and Acabado, Stephen and Akello, Grace and Alfian, Ilham N. and Al-Shawaf, Laith and Alvarez, Marin{\'e}s M. and Ammann, Jeanine and Arikan, Gizem and Asha, Saiyeda A. and Astobiza, Anibal M. and Baeza-Ugarte, Carmen G. and Barclay, Pat and Barlow, Fiona Kate and Bizarro, Lisiane and Bressan, Paola and Castellanos-Chac{\'o}n, Andres and Choy, Bryan K.C. and Chusairi, Achmad and Contreras-Gardu{\~n}o, Jorge and Ch{\'a}vez Cosamal{\'o}n, Brenda L. and Costa-Neves, Bernardo and De, Mallika and de Lima, Tiago J.S. and de Zoysa, Piyanjali and Dry{\v{z}}ait{\.e}, Ieva and Elb{\ae}k, Christian T. and Fedor, Peter and Fern{\'a}ndez, Ana M. and Fernandez-Morales, Regina and F{\"u}l{\"o}p, M{\'a}rta and Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer Lado and Garcia-G{\'o}mez, Leonor and Garcia-Marques, Leonel and Gardu{\~n}o-Franco, Jimena and Pilar Grazioso, Mar{\'\i}a del and Habacht, Fanny and Hasan, Youssef and Haugestad, Camila P. and Haugestad, Christian A.P. and Havl{\'\i}{\v{c}}ek, Jan and Hernandez, Earl J. and Hoang, Vu M. and Hong, Minsung and Hromatko, Ivana and Ili{\v{s}}ko, Dzintra and Imada, Hirotaka and Jak{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Ivana and Jarmakowski, Tomasz and Hj{\"o}rd{\'\i}sar J{\'o}nsd{\'o}ttir, Harpa L. and Kajokaite, Kotrina and Ka{\v{n}}kov{\'a}, {\v{S}}{\'a}rka and Kervyn, Nicolas and Kim, Jinseok P. and Kunst, Jonas R. and Laakasuo, Michael and Leong{\'o}mez, Juan David and Li, Norman P. and Lu, Junsong and Lynch, Nathan and Maegli, Mar{\'\i}a A. and Manley, Harry and Marcu, Gabriela and McAfee, Thea and Mitkidis, Panagiotis and Moln{\'a}r, N{\'a}ndor B. and Morvinski, Coby and Muhamad, Haslina and Nejat, Pegah and Huy, Hoang Nguyen and Oliveira, Angelica N. and Olsson, Mats J. and Onyishi, Charity N. and Onyishi, Ike E. and Orozco, Reegan and Otterbring, Tobias and Ottersen, Ida S. and Pacheco-L{\'o}pez, Gustavo and Panagiotopoulou, Penny and Paniagua, Walter and Parvin, Roksana and Pavlovi{\'c}, Zoran and Prokop, Pavol and Raffman, Emma and Rizwan, Muhammad and Rojas, Sheila and R{\'o}{\.Z}ycka-Tran, Joanna and S{\'a}nchez, Oscar R. and Selim, Heyla and Sevi, Bar{\i}{\c{s}} and Shani, Yaniv and Shastry, Madhulika S. and Stieger, Stefan and Suh, Eunkook M. and Sumari, Melati and Takemura, Kosuke and Tognetti, Arnaud and Trombetta, Roberta Z.R. and Tybur, Joshua M. and Ucak, Eylul B. and Uchida, Yukiko and Valentova, Jaroslava V. and Viciana, Hugo and Visine, Amandine and Wang, Jin and Wang, XT (XiaoTian) and Yahiiaiev, Illia I. and Zein, Rizqy A. and {\v{Z}}e{\v{z}}elj, Iris},
language = {eng},
issn = {08891591},
doi = {10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020},
year = {2025},
abstract = {{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 {\textequals} 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 {\textgreater} audition {\textgreater} touch {\textgreater} smell {\textgreater} 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{\textemdash}and thus reduce pathogen transmission risk{\textemdash}more than would be expected given participants{\textquoteright} 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}},
journal = {{Brain, Behavior, and Immunity}},
volume = {128},
pages = {737--750},
}