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Pathogen disgust sensitivity changes according to the perceived harshness of the environment

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Date
07/05/2019
Author
Batres, Carlota
Perrett, David I.
Keywords
Disgust sensitivity
Pathogen disgust
Sexual disgust
Moral disgust
Environment
BF Psychology
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Abstract
Much research has explored behaviours that are linked with disgust sensitivity. Few studies, however, have been devoted to understanding how fixed or variable disgust sensitivity is. We therefore aimed to examine whether disgust sensitivity can change with the environment by repeatedly testing students whose environment was not changing as well as student cadets undergoing intensive training at an army camp. We found that an increase in the perceived harshness of the environment was associated with a decrease in pathogen disgust sensitivity. Our results support the idea that disgust sensitivity is malleable depending on the environment. More specifically, we propose that in a harsh environment, where survival may be more difficult, pathogen disgust sensitivity may decrease to allow the consumption of available resources.
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Batres , C & Perrett , D I 2019 , ' Pathogen disgust sensitivity changes according to the perceived harshness of the environment ' , Cognition and Emotion , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1612735
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Cognition and Emotion
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1612735
ISSN
0269-9931
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 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/10.1080/02699931.2019.1612735
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19890

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