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

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.

用于复现Aarøe、Osmundsen与Petersen 2016年发表论文《不信任作为疾病规避策略：厌恶敏感性的个体差异调节广义社会信任》中分析的数据与do文件（do-file）。相关do文件可于Dataverse平台公开获取。完整复现数据集需通过Dataverse平台申请获取。在人类演化的漫长历程中，与他人的合作性接触始终是人类生存的根本前提。与此同时，社会接触亦构成了威胁的来源之一。本文聚焦于一类切实存在的威胁——传染病，旨在探讨病原体规避动机如何通过个体广义社会信任的差异，影响人们与他人互动及合作的倾向。现有关于病原体规避的研究指出，此类动机应促使人们专门规避与外群体的互动，但本文主张，此类动机应促使人们更广泛地回避他人。在实证研究层面，本文采用两份便利样本与一份针对美国公民的大型全国代表性样本，证实了病原体厌恶敏感性的个体差异对广义社会信任存在稳健且可复现的影响效应。此外，本文还对比了病原体厌恶敏感性对广义社会信任与外群体偏见的影响，并探讨广义社会信任是否在一定程度上充当了病原体规避动机与偏见之间的中介路径。