Re:Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior
by lieblingautor on Thursday May 30, 2024 @12:32AM
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It's weird that this infection makes one more risk-embracing and "likely to disregard rules," but the subjects score higher in the apprehension factor. Doesn't that mean they are somehow becoming adventurous worrywarts? (Or did I misunderstand something here).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/
>> the men were more likely to disregard rules and were more expedient, suspicious, jealous, and dogmatic. The personality of infected women, by contrast, showed higher warmth and higher superego strength (factors A and G on Cattell's 16PF), suggesting that they were more warm hearted, outgoing, conscientious, persistent, and moralistic. Both men and women had significantly higher apprehension (factor O) compared with the uninfected controls.