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Emotion of disgust
What Is Disgust?
• Disgust is defined as a desire to avoid anything, particularly keeping it
out of your mouth, as well as a rejection of even the concept of
touching the object.
• What causes disgust?
• Proximity to or ingestion of a noxious object or idea, such as some
foods, animals, body products, injuries, sexual behaviors, and moral
offenses, as well as death and decay, is thought to cause disgust.
Bodies' reactions and behavioral
tendencies to disgust
Body Reactions
• Increased heart rate
• Skin conductance
• Other signs of sympathetic arousal
• Decreased heart rate, if you are confronted with an unpleasant thing
• Parasympathetic arousal happens if you have already had interaction with the undesirable thing
• Strong disgust can cause physical nausea
behavioral tendencies of people to disgust seen as making a strange facial expression, turning away from the
offending object, and refusing to touch or taste it. This reaction is thought to defend the body's, soul's, and/or
social order's integrity (e.g., Rozin et al., 1999).
Disgust vs Anger
• Emotion research that takes anger and disgust as two separate basic
emotions
• Anger is linked to a higher heart rate and blood pressure, while disgust
is linked to a lower heart rate (Schienle, & Vaitl, 2005).
• Diverse behavioral results, facial expressions, and physiological
responses.
• Anger and disgust have opposing action tendencies: anger encourages
aggressive behavior, whereas disgust encourages disengagement.
• Based on their diverse facial expressions, Ekman (1999) recognized rage
and disgust as two unique basic emotions.
Fear and disgust
Differences between fear and disgust
• Their biological significance differs. Disgust is mostly associated with contamination and
suggests a probable hazard, whereas fear often signals an imminent threat to survival.
• Their cognitive abilities differ. Fear increases sensory acquisition to promote a speedy
reaction, but disgust reduces the environmental intake to avoid contamination.
• Their evocative stimuli, physiological profiles, and facial expressions are different
• There are, some similarities between these emotions. Because they enhance each
other in a bidirectional fashion, disgust and fear may be linked. In their common
perceptions of danger, disgust appraisals and fear appraisals may overlap.
• However, disgust appraisals seem to focus more explicitly on the threat of
contamination, whether physical or symbolic/social, rather than a broad spectrum of
perceived hazards.
Evolutionary Perspective on Disgust
• A significant emphasis on disgust has been the search for the evolutionary
purpose of disgust. According to certain studies, distaste originated as a strategy
for orally rejecting hazardous things (Rozin et al., 2008).
• Oral Origins hypothesis: humans' meat-heavy generalist diet may have put them
at greater risk of foodborne sickness and infection.
• Evidence shows that oral ingestion of pathogens and parasites from feces and
other contaminated substances is a major cause of death in children, underlying
diarrheal diseases such as hepatitis A, polio, streptococcal infections, tapeworm,
and toxoplasmosis, as well as hepatitis B, polio, streptococcal infections,
tapeworm, and tox (Curtis, 2011).
• A technique for the oral avoidance of infectious substances would have been
very beneficial for evolution in this case.
• Data show overlap between neural, behavioral, and physiological
correlates of disgust and distaste, as well as the evaluation that the
disgust is functionally suited for orally excreting consumed substances
and limiting the entry of exterior substances into the mouth.
• Furthermore, it is fair to predict early response to a set of
fundamental elicitors, such as excrement and decaying meat, because
these have consistently and historically posed a reliable disease
danger when consumed.
• Rather than oral consumption, disgust could have evolved as an adaptation
for managing social interactions.
• Disgust, in particular, could be used as a behavioral strategy to prevent
pathogen transmission from people who exhibit disease-related signs
(Schaller and Park, 2011).
• Humans' living close to one another in centuries would have put them at a
greater danger of contracting hazardous microbes from other people.
• Therefore, Disgust can be elicited in adults by showing them images of
people with signs of illness or morphological abnormalities, or by showing
them scenarios of people engaging in deviant social behaviors such as incest,
cheating, or blasphemy, according to research (Rottman and Young, 2014).

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