Branches of a twisting tree: Domain-specific threat psychologies derive from shared mechanisms
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Threat intensifies ideological investment (e.g., ethnocentrism, religiosity) as well as a diverse and orthogonally related set of responses, such as aesthetic preferences or tendencies to seek physical proximity with others. An emerging consensus unifies these diverse threat-responses as superficially varied expressions of a single underlying process designed to reduce anxiety. In contrast, evolutionary thinking favors hypothesizing multiple functions designed to strategically manage specific threats (e.g., pathogen threats should motivate responses targeted to deter contagion), and views anxiety as a proximate tool rather than an ultimate problem. As distinct threat adaptations co-opt proximate mechanisms related to anxiety, focusing on anxiety-reduction risks obscuring important functional differences. Here, current accounts of threatmodulated bias are evaluated through an evolutionary functional lens.
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