Perceived vulnerability to disease predicts environmental attitudes

摘要: Investigating predictors of environmental attitudes may bring valuable benefits in terms improving public awareness about biodiversity degradation and increased proenvironmental behaviour. Here we used an evolutionary approach to study based on disease-threat model. We hypothesized that people vulnerable diseases ultimately protect themselves by increasing pro-environmental efforts. Indeed, school children who perceived be had better than their less disease counterparts. Disease sensitive showed greater beliefs myths owls cuckoos, but did not correlate with attitudes. Children from rural areas girls concerns males cities. Only scientistic toward correlations which suggests animals show no strong associations as was implicitly suggested previous studies. Overall, our can applied investigate the nature inter-personal differences humans.