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      Mating strategy, disgust, and food neophobia

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      Author(s)
      Al-Shawaf, L.
      Lewis, D. M. G.
      Alley, T. R.
      Buss, D. M.
      Date
      2015
      Source Title
      Appetite
      Print ISSN
      0195-6663
      Electronic ISSN
      1095-8304
      Publisher
      Elsevier
      Volume
      85
      Pages
      30 - 35
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Food neophobia and disgust are commonly thought to be linked, but this hypothesis is typically implicitly assumed rather than directly tested. Evidence for the connection has been based on conceptually and empirically unsound measures of disgust, unpublished research, and indirect findings. This study (N = 283) provides the first direct evidence of a relationship between trait-level food neophobia and trait-level pathogen disgust. Unexpectedly, we also found that food neophobia varies as a function of sexual disgust and is linked to mating strategy. Using an evolutionary framework, we propose a novel hypothesis that may account for these previously undiscovered findings: the food neophilia as mating display hypothesis. Our discussion centers on future research directions for discriminatively testing this novel hypothesis.
      Keywords
      Disgust
      Evolutionary psychology
      Food neophobia
      Food preferences
      Food selection
      Mating strategy
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22547
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.10.029
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