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dc.contributor.authorOaten, Megan
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Richard J
dc.contributor.authorCase, Trevor I
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:44:43Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:44:43Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2014-07-21T05:07:30Z
dc.identifier.issn0033-2909
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/a0014823
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/61373
dc.description.abstractMany researchers have claimed that the emotion of disgust functions to protect us from disease. Although there have been several discussions of this hypothesis, none have yet reviewed the evidence in its entirety. The authors derive 14 hypotheses from a disease-avoidance account and evaluate the evidence for each, drawing upon research on pathogen avoidance in animals and empirical research on disgust. In all but 1 case, the evidence favors a disease-avoidance account. It is suggested that disgust is evoked by objects/people that possess particular types of prepared features that connote disease. Such simple disgusts are directly disease related, are acquired during childhood, and are able to contaminate other objects/people. The complex disgusts, which emerge later in development, may be mediated by several emotions. In these cases, violations of societal norms that may subserve a disease-avoidance function, notably relating to food and sex, act as reminders of simple disgust elicitors and thus generate disgust and motivate compliance. The authors find strong support for a disease-avoidance account and suggest that it offers a way to bridge the divide between concrete and ideational accounts of disgust.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom303
dc.relation.ispartofpageto321
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPsychological Bulletin
dc.relation.ispartofvolume135
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMarketing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3506
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.titleDisgust as a Disease-Avoidance Mechanism
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorOaten, Megan


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