
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


How does our evolved psychology deal with pathogens? Can other people tell when you're sick? What's the relationship between worrying about sickness and your social network? Do you stay in or go out when you're sick? Love 'em or hate 'em, pathogens are a part of life and an extreme selection pressure, and our guest Josh Ackerman (UMichigan) gives us the in's and out's of how our minds deal with and are dealt with by this tiny microscopic critters.
More about Josh Ackerman:
https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/joshack.html
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w3nbv6UAAAAJ&hl=en
By Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof4.8
2525 ratings
How does our evolved psychology deal with pathogens? Can other people tell when you're sick? What's the relationship between worrying about sickness and your social network? Do you stay in or go out when you're sick? Love 'em or hate 'em, pathogens are a part of life and an extreme selection pressure, and our guest Josh Ackerman (UMichigan) gives us the in's and out's of how our minds deal with and are dealt with by this tiny microscopic critters.
More about Josh Ackerman:
https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/joshack.html
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w3nbv6UAAAAJ&hl=en

16,050 Listeners

15,255 Listeners

2,670 Listeners

26,276 Listeners

4,277 Listeners

2,455 Listeners

894 Listeners

4,075 Listeners

938 Listeners

2,187 Listeners

4,181 Listeners

1,645 Listeners

506 Listeners

114 Listeners

243 Listeners