14 Facts About Disgust

Disgust is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant.

Disgust is experienced primarily in relation to the sense of taste, and secondarily to anything which causes a similar feeling by sense of smell, touch, or vision.

Disgust is one of the basic emotions of Robert Plutchik's theory of emotions, and has been studied extensively by Paul Rozin.

Disgust appears to be triggered by objects or people who possess attributes that signify disease.

Disgust compares it to a "behavioral immune system" that is the 'first line of defense' against potentially deadly agents such as dead bodies, rotting food, and vomit.

Disgust is an emotion with physical responses to undesirable or dirty situations, studies have proven there are cardiovascular and respiratory changes while experiencing the emotion of disgust.

Disgust is partially a result of social conditioning, there are differences among different cultures in the objects of disgust.

Disgust is one of the basic emotions recognizable across multiple cultures and is a response to something revolting typically involving taste or sight.

Disgust can predict prejudice and discrimination towards individuals with obesity.

For example, Disgust sensitivity is associated with moral hypervigilance, which means people who have higher disgust sensitivity are more likely to think that other people who are suspects of a crime are more guilty.

Disgust is theorized as an evaluative emotion that can control moral behavior.

Disgust is known to promote the avoidance of pathogens and disease.

Disgust can be applied towards people and can function as maltreatment towards another human being.

Disgust has figured prominently in the work of several other philosophers.