Disgust versus Lust: Exploring the Interactions of Disgust and Fear with Sexual Arousal in Women. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Sexual arousal is a motivational state that moves humans toward situations that inherently pose a risk of disease transmission. Disgust is an emotion that adaptively moves humans away from such situations.
Diana S Fleischman +3 more
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Temporal dynamics of disgust and morality: an event-related potential study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Disgust is argued to be an emotion that motivates the avoidance of disease-causing entities in the physical domain and unacceptable behaviors in the social-moral domain.
Qun Yang +6 more
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Cogent Psychology, 2022 Research has established an association between disgust propensity and stigmatizing reactions against obese individuals. We conducted two online experiments (n = 544) with the moral machine paradigm to investigate a disgust-related bias against obese ...
Albert Wabnegger, Anne Schienle
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Value Disgust: Appreciating Stench’s Role in Attention, Retention and Deception
Rivista di Estetica, 2021 Philosophers, moral psychologists and neuroscientists have written plenty about disgust as it concerns foul actions, revolting images and unsavory tastes. Far less has been written about stinky delicacies.
Sue Spaid
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Aiming for the stomach and hitting the heart: dissociable triggers and sources for disgust reactions. [PDF]
, 2014 Disgust reactions can be elicited using stimuli that engender orogastric rejection (e.g., pus and vomit; core disgust stimuli) but also using images of bloody injuries or medical procedures (e.g., surgeries; blood [body] boundary violation [B-BV] disgust
Mendes, Wendy Berry, Shenhav, Amitai
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The relationship between meat disgust and meat avoidance—A chicken-and-egg problem
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 Feelings of disgust toward meat have been researched for at least 30 years, but so far the causal relationship that may link meat disgust and meat consumption has remained elusive. Two possible pathways have been proposed in previous literature: the more
Elisa Becker +4 more
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Disgust as embodied moral judgment. [PDF]
, 2008 How, and for whom, does disgust influence moral judgment? In four experiments participants made moral judgments while experiencing extraneous feelings of disgust.
Clore, Gerald L +3 more
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Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of fear and disgust [PDF]
, 1998 Neuropsychological studies report more impaired responses to facial expressions of fear than disgust in people with amygdala lesions, and vice versa in people with Huntington's disease.
A. J. Calder +11 more
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Exploring the Emotion of Disgust: Differences in Smelling and Feeling
Chemosensors, 2018 Disgust evolved to motivate humans away from disease cues and may heighten discernment of these cues. Disease cues are often best perceived through our sense of smell, however very few studies have examined how eliciting disgust influences smell ...
Lorenzo D. Stafford +3 more
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Deontological morality can be experimentally enhanced by increasing disgust. A transcranial direct current stimulation study [PDF]
, 2018 Previous studies empirically support the existence of a distinctive association between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and both disgust and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms.
Collazzoni, Alberto +4 more
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