Third-party attitudes toward sibling incest: Evidence for Westermarck's hypotheses

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Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “These cues include childhood coresidence duration (Bevc & Silverman, 1993, 2000; Fessler & Navarrete, 2004; Lieberman, Tooby, & Cosmides, 2003; Lieberman et al., 2007), exposure to one's mother caring for a newborn (Lieberman et al., 2007), and perhaps facial and attitudinal similarity (DeBruine,…”
Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008, background): “Also, just as negative reactions to actual incest are stronger among women than among men (Fessler & Navarrete, 2004; Lieberman et al., 2003), negative reactions to these particular kinds of nonincestuous relations may also be stronger among women.”
Mind the gap : tracing the origins of human universals (2010, background): “Disgust, antithetical to both hunger and lust, plays a central role in human inbreeding avoidance (Lieberman et al. 2003, 2007; Fessler and Navarrete 2004); likewise, women’s sexual disgust sensitivity increases around ovulation, possibly functioning to reduce contact with suboptimal reproduc-”
Parasites, Behavioral Defenses, and the Social Psychological Mechanisms Through Which Cultures Are Evoked (2006, background): “In recent studies, coresidence duration with an opposite-sex sibling has been found to predict the level of moral opposition to third-party sibling incest (Fessler & Navarrete, 2004; Lieberman et al., 2003).”