Visual attention is not attuned to non-human animal targets' pathogenicity: an evolutionary mismatch perspective

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dc.authoridTEKOZEL, IBRAHIM MERT/0000-0002-2224-1425
dc.authoridRengiiyiler, Sezer/0000-0002-6534-423X
dc.contributor.authorRengiiyiler, Sezer
dc.contributor.authorTekozel, Mert
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-23T19:35:39Z
dc.date.available2025-03-23T19:35:39Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentSinop Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractA considerable amount of research has revealed that there exists an evolutionary mismatch between ancestral environments and conditions following the rise of agriculture regarding the contact between humans and animal reservoirs of infectious diseases. Based on this evolutionary mismatch framework, we examined whether visual attention exhibits adaptive attunement toward animal targets' pathogenicity. Consistent with our predictions, faces bearing heuristic infection cues held attention to a greater extent than did animal vectors of zoonotic infectious diseases. Moreover, the results indicated that attention showed a specialized vigilance toward processing facial cues connoting the presence of infectious diseases, whereas it was allocated comparably between animal disease vectors and disease-irrelevant animals. On the other hand, the pathogen salience manipulation employed to amplify the participants' contextual-level anti-pathogen motives did not moderate the selective allocation of attentional resources. The fact that visual attention seems poorly equipped to detect and encode animals' zoonotic transmission risk supports the idea that our evolved disease avoidance mechanisms might have limited effectiveness in combating global outbreaks originating from zoonotic emerging infectious diseases.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00221309.2024.2349005
dc.identifier.endpage57
dc.identifier.issn0022-1309
dc.identifier.issn1940-0888
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.pmid38733318
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85192755049
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage36
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2024.2349005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/5896
dc.identifier.volume152
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001218831200001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of General Psychology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250323
dc.subjectBehavioral immune system
dc.subjectevolutionary mismatch
dc.subjectpathogens
dc.subjectvisual attention
dc.subjectzoonotic diseases
dc.titleVisual attention is not attuned to non-human animal targets' pathogenicity: an evolutionary mismatch perspective
dc.typeArticle

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