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Dr Micheal De Barra
Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Quad North 129

  • Psychology

Summary

My research is concerned with health and behaviour, and it often takes an evolutionary approach. I have examined how infectious disease shaped cognitive evolution, how behaviour alters infection risk, and how maladaptive ideas about health and healing spread and persist. I have a particular interest in the social and cognitive processes that drive overtreatment (the use of ineffective medical therapies).  

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Newest selected publications

Andersson, PA., Vartanova, I., Västfjäll, D., Tinghög, G., Strimling, P., Wu, J., et al. (2024) ''. Scientific Reports, 14 (1). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 2045-2322

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Andrighetto, G., Szekely, A., Guido, A., Gelfand, M., Abernathy, J., Arikan, G., et al. (2024) ''. Nature Communications, 15 (1). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 2041-1723

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de Barra, M., Hakimy, K. and de Bruin, M. (2023) ''. Evolution Medicine and Public Health, 11 (1). pp. 363 - 378. ISSN: 2050-6201

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Brown, RCH. and de Barra, M. (2023) ''. Public Health Ethics, 15 (1). pp. 86 - 101. ISSN: 1754-9973

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de Barra, M. and Brown, R. (2023) ''. Nature Human Behaviour, 7 (5). pp. 662 - 664. ISSN: 2397-3374

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More publications(21)

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