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    the behavioral immune system acts as a set of defense mechanisms to protect against pathogens before infection occurs Mechanisms for the behavioral immune...
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  • less "self-conscious" behavior. In the 2011 article "the Behavioral Immune System", the authors discuss how avoidance behaviors can also be triggered...
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  • covers research on the relationship between the nervous system, psychology, and the immune system. It is the official journal of the PsychoNeuroimmunology...
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    The adaptive immune system (AIS), also known as the acquired immune system, or specific immune system is a subsystem of the immune system that is composed...
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    this, disgust is believed to have evolved as a component of a behavioral immune system in which the body attempts to avoid disease-carrying pathogens...
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  • Pathogen avoidance (category Behavioral ecology)
    Pathogen avoidance is a psychological mechanism associated with the behavioral immune system. Pathogen avoidance has been discussed as one of the three domains...
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    The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases. It detects and responds to a wide variety of pathogens, from...
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  • implications that the behavioral immune system has for emotion, for prejudice, for human social cognition and social behavior more generally, for the...
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  • The mechanisms underlying behaviorally induced alterations of immune function, and immune alterations inducing behavioral changes, are likely to have...
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  • Immune dysregulation is any proposed or confirmed breakdown or maladaptive change in molecular control of immune system processes. For example, dysregulation...
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    environments, which extraverts may find boring. Research shows that behavioral immune system, the psychological processes that infer infection risk from perceptual...
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  • Artificial immune systems (AIS) are a class of rule-based machine learning systems inspired by the principles and processes of the vertebrate immune system. The...
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    cause sickness behavior. Acute psychosocial stress enhances the ability of an immune response to trigger both inflammation and behavioral sickness. The...
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  • induce behavioral responses by interacting with the host's immune system to create the necessary neuroactive compounds to induce a desired behavioral response...
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    sexual selection The parasite-stress theory of sociality, the behavioral immune system, and human social and cognitive uniqueness Mechanisms by which...
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    Cotter, S. C.; Kilner, R. M. (2010-07-01). "Personal immunity versus social immunity". Behavioral Ecology. 21 (4): 663–668. doi:10.1093/beheco/arq070....
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  • Lene; Petersen, Michael Bang; Arceneaux, Kevin (1 May 2017). "The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences...
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  • brain and the immune system. It differs from psychoneuroimmunology by postulating that behaviors and emotions are governed by peripheral immune mechanisms...
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    a major neuroendocrine system that controls reactions to stress and regulates many body processes, including digestion, immune responses, mood and emotions...
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  • field of study which explores the links connecting the brain, behavior, and the immune system. Ader was a professor emeritus at the University of Rochester...
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    alter host immune system responses to other microorganisms, including pathogens, and are required to maintain proper homeostasis. The immune system is a host...
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  • be hastened by their psychological immune system. The psychological immune system is a metaphor "for that system of defenses that helps you feel better...
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    "Effects of juvenile infection on adult immunity and secondary sexual characters in a wolf spider". Behavioral Ecology. 27 (3): 946–954. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv241...
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  • judge. Though judges may be immune to suits, in many constitutional democracies judicial misconduct or bad personal behavior is not completely protected...
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    human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including...
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    such as cytokine) and causes a response in the immune system. The main receptors in the immune system are pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), Toll-like...
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    (immuno-oncotherapy) is the stimulation of the immune system to treat cancer, improving the immune system's natural ability to fight the disease. It is an...
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    T helper cell (category Immune system)
    cell that play an important role in the adaptive immune system. They aid the activity of other immune cells by releasing cytokines. They are considered...
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    Fight-or-flight response (category Sympathetic nervous system)
    Stress Hormones on Immune Function May be Vital for the Adaptive Reconfiguration of the Immune System During Fight-or-Flight Behavior". Integrative and...
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  • nervous system, and immunology, the study of the immune system. Neuroimmunologists seek to better understand the interactions of these two complex systems during...
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