Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism.

By Megan Oaten, Richard J. Stevenson, T. Case. Psychological bulletin, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters) (2011, background): “…are especially likely to arouse disgust; disgust is also evoked by behaviors that violate normative expectations in behavioral domains that are functionally associated with disease transmission (e.g., food preparation, personal hygiene, sexual interaction; for a review, see Oaten et al., 2009).”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, neutral): “…Curtis et al., 2011; Fessler, Eng, & Navarrete, 2005; Fessler & Navarrete, 2003a; Fleischman & Fessler, 2011; Kelly, 2011; Marzillier & Davey, 2004; Oaten et al., 2009; Olatunji & Sawchuk, 2005; Rozin et al., 2008; Stevenson & Repacholi, 2005; Susskind et al., 2008; Tybur, Bryan, Magnan, &…”
Practical Work at School Reduces Disgust and Fear of Unpopular Animals (2012, background): “…disgust suggesting that these emotions evolved 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…”
Danger, Disease, and the Nature of Prejudice(s) (2012, background): “…associations were activated more strongly when participants were especially likely to experience disgust (the emotion most closely linked to the threat of infection; Oaten et al., 2009), or when the threat of pathogen infection was made temporarily salient (Park, Faulkner, & Schaller, 2003).”
Sex Differences in Disgust: Why Are Women More Easily Disgusted Than Men? (2018, background): “However, the facts that (a) behavioral and observational studies also reveal greater disgust among women than men (e.g., Oaten et al., 2009; Porzig-Drummond et al., 2009; Rozin et al., 1999), and (b) women outperform men even when it comes to recognizing disgust in the facial expressions of others…”
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, background): “Supporting this conceptual analysis is evidence that the most subjectively disgusting objects tend to be those that historically posed the greatest threat of disease (Curtis, de Barra, & Aunger, 2011; Oaten et al., 2009).”