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Replication Data for: Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust, Front. Psychol. 7:1038. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01038

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Title Replication Data for: Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust, Front. Psychol. 7:1038. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01038
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A6KEW8
 
Creator Aarøe, Lene
Osmundsen, Mathias
Petersen, Michael Bang
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Data and do-files to replicate analyses reported in the paper Aarøe, Osmundsen and Petersen, 2016: "Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust". Do-files are publicly available here at Dataverse. Full replication datasets are available at Dataverse upon request.
Throughout human evolutionary history, cooperative contact with others has been fundamental for human survival. At the same time, social contact has been a source of threats. In this article, we focus on one particular viable threat, communicable disease, and investigate how motivations to avoid pathogens influence people's propensity to interact and cooperate with others, as measured by individual differences in generalized social trust. While extant studies on pathogen avoidance have argued that such motivations should prompt people to avoid interactions with outgroups specifically, we argue that these motivations should prompt people to avoid others more broadly. Empirically, we utilize two convenience samples and a large nationally representative sample of US citizens to demonstrate the existence of a robust and replicable effect of individual differences in pathogen disgust sensitivity on generalized social trust. We furthermore compare the effects of pathogen disgust sensitivity on generalized social trust and outgroup prejudice and explore whether generalized social trust to some extent constitutes a pathway between pathogen avoidance motivations and prejudice.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Aarøe, Lene