ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Why do people vary in disgust?
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Dissecting disgust and fear in chimpanzees: From facilitation to disruption of cognitive processes.iScience · 2026Article
- Development of a psychobiological nosology for fear and frustration in clinical animal behavior using dogs as a model species.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Challenge of the Yuck Factor in Public Acceptance of Engineered Living Materials.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2025Article
- Do Experimental Manipulations of Pathogen Avoidance Motivations Influence Conformity?Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2024Article
- Italian validation of the body odor disgust scale.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Disgust sensitivity and psychopathic behavior: A narrative review.Translational neuroscience · 2024Review
- The Role of Childhood Experiences in the Development of Disgust Sensitivity: A Preliminary Study on Early Moral Memories.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Article
- Conceptual and methodological issues in the study of the personality-and-culture relationship.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Development of Disgust and Its Relationship to Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning.Child psychiatry and human development · 2022Article
- A Psychology of Ideology: Unpacking the Psychological Structure of Ideological Thinking.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Broadening the ecology of fear: non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- 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
- Pre-pandemic disgust proneness predicts increased coronavirus anxiety and safety behaviors: Evidence for a diathesis-stress model.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2020Article
- Preregistered Direct Replication of "Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System".Psychological science · 2020Article
- Lateralized Deficits of Disgust Processing After Insula-Basal Ganglia Damage.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Food Disgust Scale: Spanish Version.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Pathogens and Immigrants: A Critical Appraisal of the Behavioral Immune System as an Explanation of Prejudice Against Ethnic Outgroups.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
People vary in the degree to which they experience disgust toward-and, consequently, avoid-cues to pathogens. Prodigious work has measured this variation and observed that it relates to, among other things, personality, psychopathological tendencies, and moral and political sentiments. Less work has sought to generate hypotheses aimed at explaining why this variation exists in the first place, and even less work has evaluated how well data support these hypotheses. In this paper, we present and review the evidence supporting three such proposals. First, researchers have suggested that variability reflects a general tendency to experience anxiety or emotional distress. Second, researchers have suggested that variability arises from parental modelling, with offspring calibrating their pathogen avoidance based on their parents' reactions to pathogen cues. Third, researchers have suggested that individuals calibrate their disgust sensitivity to the parasite stress of the ecology in which they develop. We conclude that none of these hypotheses is supported by existing data, and we propose directions for future research aimed at better understanding this variation.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours'.
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