Pathogens, personality, and culture: disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experience.

Pathogen prevalence will be negatively associated with the personality trait of extraversion (214).

R ranges across five different measures of extraversion.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Pearson's r	Supported	p < 0.05	r = -0.26 to -0.67	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Pathogen Prevalence	Independent	Morbidity
Extraversion	Dependent	Personality Traits

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Schaller, Mark	2008	Pathogen prevalence will be negatively associated with the personality trait of 'openness' (214).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murray, Damian R.	2013	Individuals' inclination towards authoritarian personality will be predicted by pathogen prevalence in the home country (3-4).	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Schaller, Mark	2008	Disease prevalence will be negatively associated with an unrestricted sociosexual style (214).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kammas, Pantelis	2024	Historical pathogen prevalence will be negatively associated with the contemporary radius of trust in a society.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murray, Damian R.	2011	Pathogen prevalence will be positively associated with conformity effect size (321).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author