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Disgust sensitivity is not associated with health in a rural Bangladeshi sample.
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- The relationship between disgust sensitivity and serum cytokine levels in non-pregnant women: a generalization of previous results on pregnant population.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and the role of recent health problems.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Disgust sensitivity in early pregnancy as a response to high pathogen risk.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on disgust sensitivity in a sample of UK adults.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Disgust Sensitivity Among Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Preregistered Direct Replication of "Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System".Psychological science · 2020Article
- No evidence for a relationship between MHC heterozygosity and life history strategy in a sample of North American undergraduates.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Disgust Sensitivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The source effect as a natural function of disgust in interpersonal context and its impairment in mental disorders.Scientific reports · 2019Observational
- Why do people vary in disgust?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Implications of the behavioural immune system for social behaviour and human health in the modern world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
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Abstract
Disgust can be considered a psychological arm of the immune system that acts to prevent exposure to infectious agents. High disgust sensitivity is associated with greater behavioral avoidance of disease vectors and thus may reduce infection risk. A cross-sectional survey in rural Bangladesh provided no strong support for this hypothesis. In many species, the expression of pathogen- and predator-avoidance mechanisms is contingent on early life exposure to predators and pathogens. Using childhood health data collected in the 1990s, we examined if adults with more infectious diseases in childhood showed greater adult disgust sensitivity: no support for this association was found. Explanations for these null finding and possible directions for future research are discussed.
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