ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011
Why disgust matters.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.
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- Examining disgust learning through category conditioning: Evidence from trial-unique presentations and oculomotor avoidance.Learning & behavior · 2025Article
- The Role of Discrete Emotional Reactions to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Testimony in Mock Juror Decision-Making.Psychology, crime & law : PC & L · 2025Article
- Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism-Saprotrophy Spectrum.Ecology letters · 2025Review
- Crossing the health misinformation crisis: Lessons from the giant hammerhead flatworm.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2025Review
- The Relationship Between Face-Based First Impressions and Perceptions of Purity and Compared to Other Moral Violations.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Differential involvement of the senses in disgust memories.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Neurobiology of Pathogen Avoidance and Mate Choice: Current and Future Directions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
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- Disgust Processing and Potential Relationships with Behaviors in Autism.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Exposure to models' negative facial expressions whilst eating a vegetable decreases women's liking of the modelled vegetable, but not their desire to eat.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A linguistic analysis of dehumanization toward substance use across three decades of news articles.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Clinician Distress with Treatments at the Frontier of Mortality.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Design, delivery, and determinants of uptake: findings from a food hygiene behavior change intervention in rural Bangladesh.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Epidemiology, Secondary School Curricula, and Preparing the Next Generation for Global Citizenship.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
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- Zootherapeutic uses of animals excreta: the case of elephant dung and urine use in Sayaboury province, Laos.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2021Article
- Neuroanatomy of expressive suppression: The role of the insula.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2021Article
- Food disgust sensitivity predicts disease-preventing behaviour beyond the food domain in the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.PloS one · 2021Article
- Disgust Sensitivity Among Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- A cross-sectional survey to assess the risk factors associated with stigmatizing attitudes towards patients with podoconiosis among rural youth in southern Ethiopia.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2020Article
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Abstract
The new synthesis about disgust is that it is a system that evolved to motivate infectious disease avoidance. There are vital practical and intellectual reasons why we need to understand disgust better. Practically, disgust can be harnessed to combat the behavioural causes of infectious and chronic disease such as diarrhoeal disease, pandemic flu and smoking. Disgust is also a source of much human suffering; it plays an underappreciated role in anxieties and phobias such as obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia and post-traumatic stress syndromes; it is a hidden cost of many occupations such as caring for the sick and dealing with wastes, and self-directed disgust afflicts the lives of many, such as the obese and fistula patients. Disgust is used and abused in society, being both a force for social cohesion and a cause of prejudice and stigmatization of out-groups. This paper argues that a better understanding of disgust, using the new synthesis, offers practical lessons that can enhance human flourishing. Disgust also provides a model system for the study of emotion, one of the most important issues facing the brain and behavioural sciences today.
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