609
Views
16
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Brief Articles

Pathogen disgust sensitivity changes according to the perceived harshness of the environment

ORCID Icon &
Pages 377-383 | Received 25 Jul 2017, Accepted 22 Apr 2019, Published online: 07 May 2019

References

  • Angyal, A. (1941). Disgust and related aversions. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 36(3), 393–412. doi: 10.1037/h0058254
  • Azlan, H. A., Overton, P. G., Simpson, J., & Powell, P. A. (2017). Differential disgust responding in people with cancer and implications for psychological wellbeing. Psychology & Health, 32, 19–37. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2016.1235165
  • Batres, C., & Perrett, D. I. (2017). How the harsh environment of an army training camp changes human (Homo sapiens) facial preferences. Ethology, 123(1), 61–68. doi: 10.1111/eth.12571
  • Borg, C., & de Jong, P. J. (2012). Feelings of disgust and disgust-induced avoidance weaken following induced sexual arousal in women. PLoS One, 7(9), e44111. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044111
  • Case, T. I., Repacholi, B. M., & Stevenson, R. J. (2006). My baby doesn’t smell as bad as yours: The plasticity of disgust. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27(5), 357–365. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.03.003
  • Curtis, V., Aunger, R., & Rabie, T. (2004). Evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B, 271(Suppl. 4), S131–S133.
  • Davey, G. C. K., McDonald, A. S., Hirisave, U., Prabhu, G. G., Iwawaki, S., Jim, C. I., … Reimann, B. C. (1998). A cross-cultural study of animal fears. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36(7–8), 735–750. doi: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00059-X
  • DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D., & Griskevicius, V. (2010). Women’s preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31(1), 69–74. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.09.003
  • Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. (1986). A new pan-cultural facial expression of emotion. Motivation & Emotion, 10(2), 159–168. doi: 10.1007/BF00992253
  • Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (2003). Unmasking the face: A guide to recognizing emotions from facial clues. Cambridge, MA: Malor Books.
  • Fessler, D. M. T., & Navarrete, C. D. (2003). Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(6), 406–417. doi: 10.1016/S1090-5138(03)00054-0
  • Golding, W. (2003). Lord of the flies ( 1st Perigee hardcover ed., 50th anniversary ed.). New York: Berkley Pub.
  • Jones, A., & Fitness, J. (2008). Moral hypervigilance: The influence of disgust sensitivity in the moral domain. Emotion, 8(5), 613–627. doi: 10.1037/a0013435
  • Mesquita, B., & Frijda, N. H. (1992). Cultural variations in emotions: A review. Psychological Bulletin, 112(2), 179–204. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.112.2.179
  • Oaten, M., Stevenson, R. J., & Case, T. I. (2009). Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. Psychological Bulletin, 135(2), 303–321. doi: 10.1037/a0014823
  • Olsson, M. J., Lundström, J. N., Kimball, B. A., Gordon, A. R., Karshikoff, B., Hosseini, N., … Lekander, M. (2014). The scent of disease: Human body odor contains an early chemosensory cue of sickness. Psychological Science, 25(3), 817–823. doi: 10.1177/0956797613515681
  • Prokop, P., & Fančovičová, J. (2016). Mothers are less disgust sensitive than childless females. Personality and Individual Differences, 96, 65–69. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.064
  • Rozin, P. (2008). Hedonic “adaptation”: Specific habituation to disgust/death elicitors as a result of dissecting a cadaver. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 191–194.
  • Rozin, P., & Fallon, A. E. (1987). A perspective on disgust. Psychological Review, 94, 23–41. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.94.1.23
  • Rozin, P., Lowery, L., & Ebert, R. (1994). Varieties of disgust faces and the structure of disgust. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66(5), 870–881. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.66.5.870
  • Smith, K. B., Oxley, D., Hibbing, M. V., Alford, J. R., & Hibbing, J. R. (2011). Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations. PLoS One, 6(10), e25552. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025552
  • Thorpe, S. J., Patel, S. P., & Simonds, L. M. (2003). The relationship between disgust sensitivity, anxiety and obsessions. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 1397–1409. doi: 10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00058-5
  • Tybur, J. M., Bryan, A. D., Lieberman, D., Hooper, A. E. C., & Merriman, L. A. (2011). Sex differences and sex similarities in disgust sensitivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(3), 343–348. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.04.003
  • Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D., & Griskevicius, V. (2009). Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(1), 103–122. doi: 10.1037/a0015474

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.