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    A preliminary study on the role of personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases on self-reported health across countries
    (Elsevier B.V., 2025) Gerit Pfuhl; Filipe Prazeres; Marta Kowal; Toivo Aavik; Beatriz Abad-Villaverde; Reza Afhami; Leonardo A. Aguilar; Grace A. Akello; Laith Al-Shawaf; Jan Antfolk; Aavik, Toivo; Kowal, Marta; Afhami, Reza; Prazeres, Filipe; Abad-Villaverde, Beatriz; Pfuhl, Gerit; Sorokowski, Piotr
    Objectives: Infectious diseases are often associated with decline in quality of life. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between personal history of communicable i.e. infectious and parasitic diseases and self-rated health. Study design: Secondary analysis of a large dataset multi-country observational study. Methods: We used a four-pronged analysis approach to investigate whether personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases is related to self-reported health measured with a single item. Results: Three of the four analyses found a small positive effect on self-reported health among those reporting a history of pathogen exposure. The meta-analysis found no support but large heterogeneity that was not reduced by two classifications of countries. Conclusion: Personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases does not reduce self-reported health across a global sample. © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Love and affectionate touch toward romantic partners all over the world
    (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2023) Agnieszka Sorokowska; Marta Kowal; Supreet Saluja; Toivo Aavik; Charlotte Alm; Afifa Anjum; Kelly Asao; Carlota Batres; Aicha Bensafia; Boris Bizumic; Mahmoud Boussena; David. M. M. Buss; Marina Butovskaya; Seda Can; Antonin Carrier; Hakan Cetinkaya; Daniel Conroy-Beam; Rosa Maria Cueto; Marcin Czub; Seda Dural; Agustin Espinosa; Carla Sofia Esteves; Tomasz Frackowiak; Jorge Contreras-Garduno; Farida Guemaz; Ivana Hromatko; Herak Iskra; Feng Jiang; Konstantinos Kafetsios; Tina Kavcic; Nicolas Kervyn; Nils C. Koebis; Aleksandra Kostic; Andras Lang; Torun Lindholm; Zoi Manesi; Norbert Mesko; Girishwar Misra; Conal Monaghan; Jean Carlos Natividade; George Nizharadze; Elisabeth Oberzaucher; Anna Oleszkiewicz; Ariela Francesca Pagani; Vilmante Pakalniskiene; Miriam Parise; Marija Pejicic; Annette Pisanski; Kasia Pisanski; Camelia Popa; Pavol Prokop; Ruta Sargautyte; Shivantika Sharad; Franco Simonetti; Piotr Sorokowski; Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk; Anna Szagdaj; Meri Tadinac; Karina Ugalde Gonzalez; Olga Uhryn; Christin-Melanie Vauclair; Gyesook Yoo; Maja Zupancic; Ilona Croy; Aavik, Toivo; Kowal, Marta; Alm, Charlotte; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Anjum, Afifa; Croy, Ilona; Saluja, Supreet
    Touch is the primary way people communicate intimacy in romantic relationships and affectionate touch behaviors such as stroking hugging and kissing are universally observed in partnerships all over the world. Here we explored the association of love and affectionate touch behaviors in romantic partnerships in two studies comprising 7880 participants. In the first study we used a cross-cultural survey conducted in 37 countries to test whether love was universally associated with affectionate touch behaviors. In the second study using a more fine-tuned touch behavior scale we tested whether the frequency of affectionate touch behaviors was related to love in romantic partnerships. As hypothesized love was significantly and positively associated with affectionate touch behaviors in both studies and this result was replicated regardless of the inclusion of potentially relevant factors as controls. Altogether our data strongly suggest that affectionate touch is a relatively stable characteristic of human romantic relationships that is robustly and reliably related to the degree of reported love between partners.
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    Modernization collectivism and gender equality predict love experiences in 45 countries
    (Nature Research, 2023) Piotr Sorokowski; Marta Kowal; Robert J. Sternberg; Toivo Aavik; Grace A. Akello; Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba; Charlotte Alm; Naumana Amjad; Afifa Anjum; Kelly Asao; Aavik, Toivo; Kowal, Marta; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Sternberg, Robert J.; Akello, Grace; Alhabahba, Mohammad Madallh; Sorokowski, Piotr
    Recent cross-cultural and neuro-hormonal investigations have suggested that love is a near universal phenomenon that has a biological background. Therefore the remaining important question is not whether love exists worldwide but which cultural social or environmental factors influence experiences and expressions of love. In the present study we explored whether countries’ modernization indexes are related to love experiences measured by three subscales (passion intimacy commitment) of the Triangular Love Scale. Analyzing data from 9474 individuals from 45 countries we tested for relationships with country-level predictors namely modernization proxies (i.e. Human Development Index World Modernization Index Gender Inequality Index) collectivism and average annual temperatures. We found that mean levels of love (especially intimacy) were higher in countries with higher modernization proxies collectivism and average annual temperatures. In conclusion our results grant some support to the hypothesis that modernization processes might influence love experiences. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.