The disgust traits: Self–other agreement in pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity and their independence from HEXACO personality.

Emotion ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika K. Karinen ◽  
Joshua M. Tybur ◽  
Reinout E. de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Moral Disgust

Self-other agreement in disgust sensitivity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Karinen ◽  
Joshua M. Tybur ◽  
Reinout E. de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Trait Variation ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Moral Disgust ◽  
Sexual Disgust ◽  
Moral Condemnation

A broad literature indicates that pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity relate to, among other things, political attitudes, moral condemnation, and symptoms of psychopathology. As such, instruments measuring disgust sensitivity have been widely used across subfields of psychology. Yet, surprisingly little work has examined whether self-reports in disgust sensitivity reflect systematic trait variation. Here, we present the first study to examine self-other agreement in pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity. Romantic partners (n1 = 290), friends (n2 = 212) and acquaintances (n3 = 140) rated each other on these three domains of disgust sensitivity and on the HEXACO personality dimensions. Correlations between dyad partners’ self- and other-ratings were calculated to estimate the magnitude of self-other agreement. We found self-other agreement in all domains of disgust sensitivity (r’s of .36, .46, and .66 for moral, pathogen, and sexual disgust sensitivity, respectively), with this agreement only slightly inferred from personality perceptions (percentages mediated by HEXACO were 15%, 7%, and 33% for pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity, respectively). These results suggest that pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity reflect systematic trait variation that is detectable by others and distinct from broader personality traits.

scholarly journals Disgust Sensitivity Among Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Miłkowska ◽  
Andrzej Galbarczyk ◽  
Magdalena Mijas ◽  
Grazyna Jasienska
Keyword(s):  
State Anxiety ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Moral Disgust ◽  
Sources Of Infection ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Polish Adaptation ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Contamination Sensitivity

The emotion of disgust is suggested to be an adaptation that evolved to keep us away from sources of infection. Therefore, individuals from populations with greater pathogen stress should have a greater disgust sensitivity. However, current evidence for a positive relationship between disgust sensitivity and the intensity of infectious diseases in the environment is limited. We tested whether disgust and contamination sensitivity changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Disgust was assessed in 984 women in 2017 (before pandemic) and 633 women in 2020 (during pandemic) by a set of photographs depicting sources of infection and Pathogen and Moral of Three-Domain Disgust Scale. Further, contamination sensitivity among participants in two waves was measured by Contamination Obsessions and Washing Compulsions Subscale of Padua Inventory. State anxiety was measured with the Polish adaptation of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) only during the second wave of data collection. Women from the COVID-19 pandemic group assessed the photographs depicting sources of infection as more disgusting, scoring higher on Padua Inventory, but lower on Moral Disgust Domain as compared to women from before the pandemic. In addition, anxiety levels during pandemic positively correlated with scores from Pathogen Disgust Domain, Padua Inventory, and the ratings of the photographs. The participants of the study scored higher in state anxiety than the norms determined for the Polish population. Summarizing, we present evidence for differences in individual levels of disgust sensitivity in relation to pathogen stress, supporting the idea that disgust evolved to serve as protection from pathogens.

scholarly journals Godliness is next to cleanliness but sex is sinful: The roles of disgust in religious scrupulosity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick A. Stewart ◽  
Thomas G. Adams ◽  
Carl Senior
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
System Model ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Experimental Induction ◽  
Moral Disgust ◽  
Sexual Disgust ◽  
Fear Of God ◽  
The Relationship

There is a growing literature suggesting disgust plays a major role in religiosity. However the relationship between different domains of disgust sensitivity and general religious fundamentalism or religious scrupulosity remains unknown. Two studies are reported that examined the relationship between specific types of disgust sensitivity i.e., pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust and specific religious beliefs i.e., fear of sin and fear of God. In the first study it was found that fear of sin and fear of God were significantly related to sexual disgust and pathogen disgust, respectively. In the second study the experimental induction of disgust lead to greater fear of sin but not the fear of God. These findings suggest that pathogen and sexual disgust sensitivities may serve as effective mechanisms for inflated scrupulosity while state disgust is only related to specific forms of scrupulosity. Taken together the outcomes from both studies converge on a greater understanding of the so called ‘Human Behavioural Immune System’ model that can account for social behaviour with an evolutionary of adaptive benefit and perhaps more importantly highlights the possible drivers of specific religious behaviour.

scholarly journals Reevaluating Moral Disgust: Sensitivity to Many Affective States Predicts Extremity in Many Evaluative Judgments

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin F. Landy ◽  
Jared Piazza
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Psychological Construct ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
Moral Disgust ◽  
Moral Condemnation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
General Association

Disgust-sensitive individuals are particularly morally critical. Some theorists take this as evidence that disgust has a uniquely moral form: disgust contributes to moralization even of pathogen-free violations, and disgust’s contribution to moralization is unique from other emotional states. We argue that the relationship between disgust sensitivity (DS) and moral judgment is not special in two respects. First, trait sensitivity to many other affective states, beyond disgust, predicts moral evaluations. Second, DS also predicts nonnormative evaluative judgments. Four studies supported these hypotheses, using multiple measures of DS, and judgments of moral violations (Studies 1 and 4), conventional violations (Study 1), imprudent actions (Study 1), competence (Study 2), and aesthetic evaluations (Study 3). Our findings call into question the usefulness of “moral disgust” as a psychological construct by showing that the relationship between DS and moral condemnation is one instantiation of a more general association between affect and judgment.

Hand-grip strength predicts individuals' sexual and pathogen but not moral disgust sensitivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 237-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz ◽  
Judyta Nowak ◽  
Bogusław Pawłowski
Keyword(s):  
Grip Strength ◽  
Hand Grip Strength ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Hand Grip ◽  
Moral Disgust

Self-Reported Sense of Smell Predicts Disgust Sensitivity and Disgust Reactivity

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Kelley ◽  
Adrienne L. Crowell
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Olfactory Stimulus ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Sense Of Smell ◽  
Olfactory Ability ◽  
Good Proxy ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract. Two studies tested the hypothesis that self-reported sense of smell (i.e., metacognitive insight into one’s olfactory ability) predicts disgust sensitivity and disgust reactivity. Consistent with our predictions two studies demonstrated that disgust correlates with self-reported sense of smell. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated, from an individual difference perspective, that trait-like differences in disgust relate to self-reported sense of smell. Physical forms of disgust (i.e., sexual and pathogen disgust) drove this association. However, the association between self-reported sense of smell and disgust sensitivity is small, suggesting that it is likely not a good proxy for disgust sensitivity. The results of Study 2 extended this finding by demonstrating that individual differences in self-reported sense of smell influence how individuals react to a disgusting olfactory stimulus. Those who reported having a better sense of smell (or better insight into their olfactory ability) found a disgusting smell significantly more noxious as compared to participants reporting having a poor sense of smell (or poor insight into their olfactory ability). The current findings suggest that a one-item measure of self-reported sense of smell may be an effective tool in disgust research.

Validity of a measure of implicit disgust sensitivity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Zinkernagel ◽  
Wilhelm Hofmann ◽  
Friederike Dislich ◽  
Manfred Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Disgust Sensitivity
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