Is Disgust a Homogeneous Emotion?

By Jane Simpson, Sarah Carter, Susan Anthony, P. Overton. 2006

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The role of moral emotions and individual differences in consumer responses to corporate green and non-green actions (2015, background): “Recent research also supports high amounts of shared variance for at least pairs of the three emotions (e.g., Harris and Fiske 2006; Hodson and Costello 2007; Hutcherson and Gross 2011; Mackie et al. 2000; Shioiri et al. 1999; Simpson et al. 2006; Wagner 2000,).”
Confirming the Three-Factor Structure of the Disgust Scale—Revised in Eight Countries (2009, background): “There is descriptive (Marzillier & Davey, 2004) and experimental (Simpson et al., 2006) evidence that disgust is not a homogenous construct.”
Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights (2009, background): “The relationship between “Yuck” emotions such as disgust at the sight of feces and sociomoral emotions such as disgust at racism is unclear ( Simpson, Carter, Anthony, & Overton, 2006 ).”