Disgust: evolved function and structure.

By Joshua M. Tybur, Debra Lieberman, Robert Kurzban, Peter DeScioli. Psychology Review, 2013

739 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/eb58d867cb60702f4e5ba988aeff27e895483d72

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Cognitive Neuroscience

Citations in the corpus

The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions (2018, background): “For example, research shows that disease threats are associated with greater conformity to social norms (Murray & Schaller, 2012; Wu & Chang, 2012) and higher levels of disgust—an emotion that motivates pathogen avoidance (Huang, Ackerman, & Newman, 2017; Oaten, Stevenson, & Case, 2009; Rozin, Haidt”
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration (2017, background): “…food, objects, or people) outside of cognitive awareness and, upon detection, motivates individuals to take precautions that help avoid coming into contact with pathogens in the first place (Oaten, Stevenson, and Case 2009; Schaller and Duncan 2007; Schaller and Neuberg 2012; Tybur et al. 2013).”
When Mental States Matter, When They Don't, and What That Means for Morality (2013, background): “Imagine a second, happier version of this story in which Mrs. Smith holds a true belief about your child’s allergy and therefore causes no harm at all.”
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, background): “…linking disgust to contemporary human behavior and may also contribute to a broader, multidisciplinary conversation regarding the evolutionary history of disgust and the role played by infectious diseases in that evolutionary history (Clark & Fessler, 2015; Rozin et al., 2009; Tybur et al., 2013).”
How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes (2016, background): “2009), while another line of literature views pathogen disgust as having its origins rooted more directly in pathogen avoidance (Tybur et al. 2013).”
Disgust and mating strategy (2015, background): “These forms of disgust are differentiated by the cues that elicit them, the behaviors that they motivate, and their distinct profiles of correlations with other psychological variables (Tybur et al., 2012).”
Sex Differences in Disgust: Why Are Women More Easily Disgusted Than Men? (2018, background): “These different types of disgust are distinguished by the types of information they take as input, their information-processing algorithms, the behavioral outputs they produce, and their distinct patterns of relationships with other psychological constructs (Tybur et al., 2013).”
The Behavioral Immune System (2015, background): “Disgust is elicited not just by objects that overtly connote the immediate presence of pathogens; it is also elicited by specific forms of social behavior—including unusual sexual acts and actions of other kinds that violate moral codes of conduct (Haidt, McCauley, & Rozin, 1994; Tybur et al., 2013)”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “, 2013), sexual disgust (Tybur et al., 2012), romantic or passionate love (e.”
Human pathogen avoidance adaptations (2016, background): “Much of the imperfection reflects design, though [3 ,25 ,30].”
The insectivore’s dilemma, and how to take the West out of it (2015, background): “Paul Rozin, it should be said, pioneered the distinction between mere distaste reactions and disgust, and was interested in understanding disgust in general, rather than the attitude toward the consumption of insects in particular (see Tybur et al., 2013, for a recent discussion).”