The theoretical versus the lay meaning of disgust: Implications for emotion research

By Robin L. Nabi. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Is Disgust a Homogeneous Emotion? (2006, background): “For example, Rozin et al. (1999) found that there is a close relationship between anger and sociomoral disgust, particularly evident in participants’ descriptions of their emotional response to socio-moral transgressions (see also Nabi, 2002 ).”
More than a Media Moment: The Influence of Televised Storylines on Viewers’ Attitudes toward Transgender People and Policies (2017, background): “In contrast to the energizing influence of hope, disgust is characterized by repulsion and irritation (Nabi 2002), often causing a person experiencing it to turn away from the object causing disgust (Izard 1977; Lazarus 1991; Tomkins 1963).”
Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment (2008, background): “Critics have argued, however, that there is no such thing as social disgust and that people are speaking metaphorically when they call social actions disgusting (Bloom, 2004; Nabi, 2002).”
Confirming the Three-Factor Structure of the Disgust Scale—Revised in Eight Countries (2009, background): “However, there is evidence that among participants in the United States, the common understanding of the word disgust reflects a combination of the conceptual meanings of disgust and anger whereas the slang term “grossed out” more closely captures the theoretical meaning of disgust (Nabi, 2002).”
How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes toward Immigrants (2018, background): “Indeed, Nabi (2002) finds that lay perceptions of disgust often combines elements of what psychologists consider to be anger and disgust.”
My Anger Is Your Gain, My Contempt Your Loss: Explaining Consumer Responses to Corporate Wrongdoing (2013, background): “Most of the research available, in fact, focuses on nonsocial disgust such as reactions to disease, decaying bodies, or body sores (Nabi, 2002).”
Anger, fear, uncertainty, and attitudes: a test of the cognitive-functional model (2002, background): “As the lay usage of the word “disgust” tends to blend irritation with revulsion (Nabi, 2002), this outcome is not considered a threat to the manipulation’s integrity.”
The Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale - Revised: Its predictive value for avoidance behavior (2010, background): “Especially, since (lay) participants may deﬁne ‘disgust’ differently than exper-imenters (Nabi, 2002).”
The role of moral emotions and individual differences in consumer responses to corporate green and non-green actions (2015, background): “…common shared variance occurs at a high level of abstraction, which is consistent with research both by Izard (1977), who proposed a single underlying dimension for the three emotions, and by Shaver et al. (1987) who found that the emotions share considerable semantic content (see also Nabi 2002).”
Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. (2009, background): “Indeed, Nabi (2002) reported that lay meaning of disgust extended beyond the definition typically used by psychologist and included a component of anger.”
Angry men and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of emotions on risk taking (2004, result): “Consistent with both: (a) the thematic associations between anger and disgust (Nabi, 2002; Smith & Ellsworth, 1985), and (b) the tendency for induction procedures to sometimes elicit multiple emotions (Polivy, 1981), participants in each of the experimental conditions also reported more of the other”
When Leaders Fail to “Walk the Talk” (2015, background): “Nabi (2002), for example, reported that events characterized by hypocrisy, betrayal, and disloyalty were described as disgusting situations.”