Evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease

By V. Curtis, Robert Aunger, T. Rabie. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2004

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Perceived vulnerability to disease: Development and validation of a 15-item self-report instrument (2009, background): “First, given that the emotion of disgust is elicited by diseaseconnoting cues (Curtis et al., 2004), one might use measures of disgust sensitivity as an affective indicator of perceived vulnerability ll rights reserved.”
Developing a reduced consumer-led lexicon to measure emotional response to beer (2015, background): “Women have also been reliably shown to score higher than men on disgust sensitivity scales (Haidt, McCauley, and Rozin (1994); Davey (1994); Curtis, Aunger, and Rabie (2004); Olatunji, Arrindell, and Lohr (2005); Tybur, Lieberman, and Griskevicius (2009)) so, though there were no significant…”
Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. (2009, methodology): “Second, and this perspective has been widely adopted in the literature (Curtis et al., 2004; Fessler et al., 2005; Fessler & Navarrete, 2003), women should be more prepared to avoid disease threats than are men and thus should be more disgust sensitive.”
Practical Work at School Reduces Disgust and Fear of Unpopular Animals (2012, background): “…as pathogen avoidance mechanisms (Prokop, Fančovičová, & Fedor, 2010; Prokop et al., 2010a, 2010b; Oaten et al., 2009; Stevenson et al., 2009; Tybur et al., 2009; Navarrete et al., 2007; Schaller et al., 2007; Curtis et al., 2004), because wood lice do not pose a risk of contamination to humans.”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “…developing evolutionary literature—notably the literature on behavioral adaptations for pathogen avoidance (see Curtis, 2007; Curtis & Biran, 2001; Curtis et al., 2004, 2011; Hart, 2011; Schaller & Park, 2011)—suggests that an examination of functions not articulated in the RHM model can offer…”
Angry men and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of emotions on risk taking (2004, background): “Patterns of caretaking likely thus increased the importance of contaminant avoidance, as human females in ancestral populations who failed in this regard would have risked sickening their infants or younger siblings (Curtis et al., 2004).”
The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach (2013, background): “Its task is to cause the avoidance of sick others, ‘‘off’’ foods, disease vectors, and pathogen contamination (Curtis et al. 2004).”
Sex Differences in Disgust: Why Are Women More Easily Disgusted Than Men? (2018, background): “, 1994), and stable dispositions on disgust questionnaires (Curtis et al., 2004; Haidt et al., 1994; Tybur et al., 2009).”
Third-party attitudes toward sibling incest: Evidence for Westermarck's hypotheses (2004, background): “Second, in light of the fact that we expected disgust reactions to play a central role in participants’ responses to the fictional scenario, because other investigations ( Curtis, Aunger, & Rabie, 2004; Quigley, Sherman, & Sherman, 1997) indicate that disgust sensitivity declines with age, we antic”