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Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence

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Implicit Attitude Toward Caregiving: The Moderating Role of Adult Attachment Styles

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Sensitivity to Deviance and to Dissimilarity: Basic Cognitive Processes Under Activation of the Behavioral Immune System

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Developing Disgust: Theory, Measurement, and Application

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Disgust and disgust-driven moral concerns predict support for restrictions on transgender bathroom access

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The behavioral immune system and vaccination intentions during the coronavirus pandemic

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Pathogen disgust and interpersonal personality

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Effects of Hands-on Activities on Conservation, Disgust and Knowledge of Woodlice

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Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli in Mostly Heterosexuals

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Are Emotions Natural Kinds After All? Rethinking the Issue of Response Coherence

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Disgust sensitivity and public opinion on nuclear energy

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Applied Affective Computing

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A behavioural immune system perspective on disgust and social prejudice

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Recontextualizing the behavioral immune system within psychoneuroimmunology.

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Risk and benefit judgment of excreta as fertilizer in agriculture: An exploratory investigation in Rwanda and Uganda

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Individual Differences in Moral Disgust Do Not Predict Utilitarian Judgments, Sexual and Pathogen Disgust Do

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Mental illness as a relationship dealbreaker.

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Disgust sensitivity is associated with heightened risk perception

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Body Odor Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Moral Harshness Toward Moral Violations of Purity

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Fast-forwarding disgust conditioning: US pre-exposure facilitates the acquisition of oculomotor avoidance

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Stigma: A biocultural proposal for integrating evolutionary and political‐economic approaches

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Investigating the relationship between olfactory acuity, disgust, and mating strategies

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Self-ownership and disgust: why compulsory body part redistribution gets under our skin

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Reexamining the role of intent in moral judgements of purity violations

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Intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting axillary odor variation. A comprehensive review

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Sex differences in attention to disgust facial expressions

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What are the causes and consequences of belief in karma?

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Do We Gossip for Moral Reasons? The Intersection of Moral Foundations and Gossip

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A bitter taste in the mouth: The role of 6-n-propylthiouracil taster status and sex in food disgust sensitivity

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Preregistered Direct Replication of “Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System”

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The Words for Disgust in English, Korean, and Malayalam Question Its Homogeneity

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Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle

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‘Look not at what is contrary to propriety’: A meta‐analytic exploration of the association between religiosity and sensitivity to disgust

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Does aversion to insects affect insecticide use? An elusive answer calls for improved methods in biophobia research

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Preliminary Evidence for How the Behavioral Immune System Predicts Juror Decision-Making

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Pathogen avoidance mechanisms affect women’s preference for symmetrical male faces.

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Prospective associations between disgust proneness and OCD symptoms: Specificity to excessive washing compulsions

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“Touch Me If You Can!”: Individual Differences in Disease Avoidance and Social Touch

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An Evolutionary Perspective on Health Psychology: New Approaches and Applications

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Correction: Harming Ourselves and Defiling Others: What Determines a Moral Domain?

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Candidate Evaluations Through the Lens of Adaptive Followership Psychology: How and Why Voters Prefer Leaders Based on Character Traits

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Are two reasons better than one? How natural and ethical appeals influence consumer preferences for clean meat

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Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression

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Examination of a bifactor model of the Three Domains of Disgust Scale: Specificity in relation to obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

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The English word disgust has no exact translation in Hindi or Malayalam

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Reasonable Irrationality: the Role of Reasons in the Diffusion of Pseudoscience

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Aversive Response Towards Culture Fusion Is Moderated by the Source of Foreign Cultural Inflow

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Disgust propensity and sensitivity in childhood anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder: Two constructs differentially related to obsessional content

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The divergent effects of fear and disgust on unconscious inhibitory control

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Disease and Disapproval: COVID-19 Concern is Related to Greater Moral CondemnationPreprint

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An orderly personality partially explains the link between trait disgust and political conservatism

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Investigation of the relationship between nursing students’ disgust sensitivity and caring behaviours

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Contracting COVID-19: a longitudinal investigation of the impact of beliefs and knowledge

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Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report

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How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising

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Effects of Experienced Disgust on Morally-Relevant Judgments

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Do Valenced Odors and Trait Body Odor Disgust Affect Evaluation of Emotion in Dynamic Faces?

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So Gross and Yet so Far Away

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Disgust predicts charitable giving: The role of empathy

Chan, E. Y., & Septianto, F. (2022) · Journal of Business Research · doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.033 · Cited by 21

The 5-Factor Disgust Scale

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Specificity Versus Generality: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association Between Trait Disgust Sensitivity and Moral Judgment

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Human emotional evaluation of ancestral and modern threats: fear, disgust, and anger

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Pro- and Assortative-sociality in the Formation and Maintenance of Religious Groups

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Disgust and fear lower olfactory threshold.

Chan, K. Q., Holland, R. W., van Loon, R., Arts, R., & van Knippenberg, A. (2016) · Emotion · doi:10.1037/emo0000113 · Cited by 21

Pathways to cognitive design

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Disgust Theory Through the Lens of Psychiatric Medicine

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Disgust and Emotion Dysregulation in Misophonia: a Case for Mental Contamination?

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Moral Judgments of COVID-19 Social Distancing Violations: The Roles of Perceived Harm and Impurity

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Evidence against the “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype in Hadza hunter gatherers

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Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures

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Are There Really So Many Moral Emotions?

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Eating in the dark: A dissociation between perceived and actual food consumption

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Comparing Social and Intellectual Appeals to Reduce Disgust of Eating Crickets

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Bugs are blech, butterflies are beautiful, but both are bad to bite: Admired animals are disgusting to eat but are themselves neither disgusting nor contaminating.

Rozin, P., & Ruby, M. B. (2019) · Emotion · doi:10.1037/emo0000587 · Cited by 19

The relationship between meat disgust and meat avoidance—A chicken-and-egg problem

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Oxytocin, social factors, and the expression of conditioned disgust (anticipatory nausea) in male rats

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Are physiological and behavioral immune responses negatively correlated? Evidence from hormone-linked differences in men's face preferences

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Butchering Benevolence Moral Progress beyond the Expanding Circle

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The Effect of Trait and State Disgust on Fear of God and Sin

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The Influence of Discrete Negative and Positive Stimuli on Recognition Memory of Younger vs. Older Adults

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Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system

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Disgustingly perfect: An examination of disgust, perfectionism, and gender

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Infection, learning, and memory: Focus on immune activation and aversive conditioning

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Behavioral and physiological sensitivity to natural sick faces

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Disgust lowers olfactory threshold: a test of the underlying mechanism

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Sexual Disgust: Evolutionary Perspectives and Relationship to Female Sexual Function

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Contamination Appraisals, Pollution Beliefs, and the Role of Cultural Inheritance in Shaping Disease Avoidance Behavior

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Disordered doctors or rational rats? Testing adaptationist and disorder hypotheses for melancholic depression and their relevance for clinical psychology

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Evolutionary Social Psychology

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Is it disgusting to be reminded that you are an animal?

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“We are legion”: Possession myth as a lens for understanding cultural and psychological evolution.

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The domains of disgust and their origins: contrasting biological and cultural evolutionary accounts

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