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dc.contributor.authorCase, Trevor I.
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Richard J.
dc.contributor.authorByrne, Richard W.
dc.contributor.authorHobaiter, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-24T15:35:13Z
dc.date.available2019-05-24T15:35:13Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-23
dc.identifier.citationCase , T I , Stevenson , R J , Byrne , R W & Hobaiter , C 2019 , ' The animal origins of disgust : reports of basic disgust in nonhuman great apes ' , Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences , vol. Online First . https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000175en
dc.identifier.issn2330-2933
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 259062683
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: e861e760-e5c1-4734-86b6-333b8f80d716
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3893-0524/work/57821918
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85065984831
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9862-9373/work/60630591
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000719327300002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17757
dc.description.abstractIntrinsic to an evolved disease avoidance account of disgust is Darwin’s assumption of continuity between the emotional lives of humans and animals. However, beyond the case of avoiding stimuli that taste bad, there has been little exploration of the existence of basic disgust elicitors in animals. Moreover, one influential perspective holds that disgust is unique to humans--a preadaptation of distaste that expands through culture to include a wide range of elicitors (e.g., Rozin, 2015). The present study represents a broad-scope investigation into disgust-like responses that might be present in nonhuman great ape species. A survey of aversions, contamination reactions, and signs of disgust in nonhuman great apes (principally chimpanzees) was collected from 74 great ape researchers, fieldworkers, and keepers. Overall, the results suggest that nonhuman great apes share with humans an aversion to a restricted range of core pathogen sources, which extends beyond distaste to resemble human disgust. However, in nonhuman great apes, this aversion is muted. Candidates for this difference between humans and other great apes are considered, including frequent exposure to basic disgust elicitors in nonhuman great apes and increased dependence on meat-eating in hominin ancestry. We suggest that differences in disgust–like behavior between humans and nonhuman great apes reflect the specific ecological standpoint of the animal and that rather than being unique to humans, disgust is a continuation of the armoury of disease avoidance behavior ubiquitous in animals.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEvolutionary Behavioral Sciencesen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2019 American Psychological Association. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000175en
dc.subjectPathogenen
dc.subjectPrimateen
dc.subjectDisease avoidanceen
dc.subjectEvolutionen
dc.subjectAversionsen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleThe animal origins of disgust : reports of basic disgust in nonhuman great apesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000175
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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