Disgust Emotion

A Disgust Emotion is a simple negative emotion where the emotional agent rejects the emotional trigger.

• AKA: Revulsion, Aversion.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) trigger avoidance behavior through visceral response.
  • It can (typically) protect from harmful substances through taste aversion.
  • It can (typically) maintain social boundaries through moral disgust.
  • It can (often) emerge from sensory input through taste perception.
  • It can (often) manifest through facial expression with disgust grimace.
  • It can (often) influence social judgment through moral evaluation.
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  • It can range from being a Fearful Disgust to being an Angry Disgust, depending on its threat assessment.
  • It can range from being a Physical Disgust to being a Moral Disgust, depending on its trigger type.
  • It can range from being a Mild Aversion to being an Intense Revulsion, depending on its response intensity.
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  • It can decrease heart rate during emotional response.
  • It can activate the insula in the human brain.
  • It can trigger gastrointestinal responses through autonomic system.
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• Examples:
  • Physical Disgusts, such as:
    • Food Disgusts, such as:
      • Taste Aversion for spoiled food.
      • Smell Revulsion for putrid odor.
    • Bodily Disgusts, such as:
      • Visceral Rejection for bodily waste.
      • Contact Aversion for contaminated surface.
  • Moral Disgusts, such as:
    • Social Disgusts, such as:
      • Behavioral Revulsion for ethical violation.
      • Cultural Aversion for taboo practice.
    • Personal Disgusts, such as:
      • Self-Directed Disgust for personal failure.
      • Other-Directed Disgust for betrayal response.
  • Pathological Disgusts, such as:
    • Clinical Phobias, such as:
      • Arachnophobia for spider aversion.
      • Blood Phobia for injury aversion.
    • OCD-Related Disgusts, such as:
      • Contamination Fear for cleanliness compulsion.
      • Hygiene Obsession for germ avoidance.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Trust Emotion, which involves approach behavior rather than rejection.
  • Joy Emotion, which creates positive valence rather than negative valence.
  • Interest Emotion, which promotes exploration rather than avoidance.
• See: Fear, Joy, Anger, Somatosensory System, Anxiety Disorder, Arachnophobia, Emotional Expression, Taste Perception, Moral Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/disgust Retrieved:2016-6-14.
  • Disgust is an emotional response of revulsion to something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant. In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin wrote that disgust is a sensation that refers to something revolting. Disgust is experienced primarily in relation to the sense of taste (either perceived or imagined), and secondarily to anything which causes a similar feeling by sense of smell, touch, or vision. Musically sensitive people may even be disgusted by the cacophony of inharmonious sounds. Research continually has proven a relationship between disgust and anxiety disorders such as arachnophobia, blood-injection-injury type phobias, and contamination fear related obsessive–compulsive disorder (also known as OCD).

    Disgust is one of the basic emotions of Robert Plutchik's theory of emotions and has been studied extensively by Paul Rozin. It invokes a characteristic facial expression, one of Paul Ekman's six universal facial expressions of emotion. Unlike the emotions of fear, anger, and sadness, disgust is associated with a decrease in heart rate.

2014

• (Wikipedia, Simple, 2014) ⇒ http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions#Robert_Plutchik.27s_theory Retrieved:2014-1-12.
  • Robert Plutchik's theory of emotion says that the basic eight emotions are:
    • Disgust → feeling something is wrong or dirty

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