>>15819713>>15819702In addition to the associations with guilt-proneness assessed here, infected women are more intelligent, rule-conscious, dutiful, conscientious, conforming, moralistic, staid, rule-bound, warm, outgoing, attentive to others, kindly, easy-going and participating, while infected men are less intelligent and more reflective, rigid, loyal, stoic, slow-tempered, frugal, reactive emotionally, changeable, affected by feelings, emotionally less stable and easily upset. These associations suggest that the effect of T. gondii on culture could be broader than postulated here.
These ideas are not entirely my own. John Hodgman, the minor television personality and author, drew my attention to it. But it's scarily plausible.
