The behavioral immune system: A multi-level reconsideration

The Behavioral Immune System

Many animals engage in many behaviors that reduce their exposure to pathogens. Ants line their nests with resins that inhibit the growth of fungi and bacteria (Chapuisat, Oppliger, Magliano, & Christe, 2008). Mice avoid mating with other mice that are infected with parasitic protozoa (Kavaliers & Colwell, 1995). Animals of many kinds—from physiologically primitive nematode worms to neurological...

Recontextualizing the Behavioral Immune System Within Psychoneuroimmunology

We believe that the concept of the behavioral immune system (BIS) picks out an important set of phenomena, namely, the relationships between the immune system and disease-avoidant psychology. However, our enthusiasm is tempered by the recognition that (a) there are unresolved ambiguities in the BIS concept, which has been used in a variety of (sometimes inconsistent) ways; (b) many types of phe...

mesuring the staff technology readiness, the case of a multi national chemical company operating in iran

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The behavioral immune system and social conservatism: a meta-analysis

A Multi-Agent System for Behavioral Studies

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent system (MAS) to simulate a community of beings that move, eat, reproduce, trade and auction, among other activities. We demonstrate how beings using primitive rules result in emerging, non-primitive behavior. Heterogeneity of real world entities is captured by allowing the user to give the beings different biological characteristics (e.g. level of intelli...