Economic Holobiont: Influence of Parasites, Microbiota and Chemosignals on Economic Behavior

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00077/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00077/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00077" target="_blank" >10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00077</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Economic Holobiont: Influence of Parasites, Microbiota and Chemosignals on Economic Behavior

Original language description

The article is a perspective on utilization of microorganisms and chemosignals in studying human economic behavior. Research in biological roots of economic development has already confirmed that parasitic pressure influenced the creation and development of cultural norms and institutions. However, other effects of microorganisms on human groups and individual decision-making and behavior are heavily understudied. The perspective discusses how parasitic infections, sexually transmitted organisms and microbiota (i.e., &quot;human holobiont&quot;) could causally influence risk-seeking behavior, impulsivity, social dominance, empathy, political views and gender differences. As a case study, the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and its influence on economic preferences, personal characteristics and human appearance are examined. I also briefly review how chemosignals influence decision-making, particularly in the social preferences domain. I mention some predictions that arise from the paradigm of economic holobiont for the economic science. The conclusion summarizes limitations of the discussed findings and the stated speculations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscienc

ISSN

1662-5153

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

May 2018

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

000431177300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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