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The Handbook of Disgust Research

Modern Perspectives and Applications

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Editors:
  1. Philip A. Powell

    1. School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  2. Nathan S. Consedine

    1. Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  • Provides a scientific “stake in the ground” in an expanding area of advanced study with high societal relevance
  • Delivers succinct and accessible perspectives and summaries from leading international authorities
  • Offers a blend of contemporary theoretical and empirical chapters emphasising new scientific developments

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Researching the Revolting: An Introduction to the Handbook

      • Philip A. Powell, Nathan S. Consedine
      Pages 3-10

  3. Theoretical Issues in Disgust

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. This Is How We Do It: Inductions, Methods, and Measurement in Disgust Research

      • Nathan S. Consedine
      Pages 13-30

    3. The Evolution of Disgust, Pathogens, and the Behavioural Immune System

      • Hannah K. Bradshaw, Jeffrey Gassen
      Pages 31-51

    4. Pathogen and Toxin Disgust in Rodents

      • Martin Kavaliers, Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp, Elena Choleris
      Pages 53-78

    5. Direct and Indirect Learning Pathways to Disgust

      • Gemma Reynolds, Chris Askew
      Pages 79-98

    6. Individual Differences in Disgust

      • Joshua M. Tybur
      Pages 99-117

    7. Olfaction and Disgust: Sensory and Affective Processes to Avoid Disease

      • Marco Tullio Liuzza
      Pages 119-137

    8. The Paradox of Moral Disgust and Three Possible Resolutions

      • Roger Giner-Sorolla
      Pages 139-155

  4. Disgust and Its Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. The Realm of Disgust in Sexual Behaviour

      • Charmaine Borg, Peter J. de Jong
      Pages 159-172

    3. Disgust, Prejudice, and Stigma

      • Lenny R. Vartanian, Tayla B. McCutcheon, Sarah A. Rubenstein
      Pages 173-190

    4. Mechanisms of Disgust in Psychopathology

      • Graham C. L. Davey
      Pages 191-208

    5. Disgust in Neurological Disorders

      • Paul G. Overton, Ana B. Vivas, Jane Simpson
      Pages 209-223

    6. How the “Ick Factor” Matters in Chronic Health Conditions

      • Lisa M. Reynolds, Vinayak Dev
      Pages 225-242

    7. From Disease to Democracy: How Disgust Shapes Western Politics

      • Natalie J. Shook, Benjamin Oosterhoff, Barış Sevi
      Pages 243-258

    8. Disgust and Consumer Behaviour

      • Philip A. Powell
      Pages 259-279

  5. Afterword

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281
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About this book

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on disgust to fully explore this understudied behavior. Disgust is unique among emotions. It is, at once, perhaps the most “basic” and visceral of feelings while also being profoundly shaped by learning and culture. Evident from the earliest months of life, disgust influences individual behavior and shapes societies across political, social, economic, legal, ecological, and health contexts.  As an emotion that evolved to prevent our eating contaminated foods, disgust is now known to motivate wider behaviors, social processes, and customs. On a global scale, disgust finds a place in population health initiatives, from hand hygiene to tobacco warning labels, and may underlie aversions to globalization and other progressive agendas, such as those regarding sustainable consumption and gay marriage.

This comprehensive work provides cutting‐edge, timely, and succinct theoretical and empirical contributions illustrating thebreadth, rigor, relevance, and increasing maturity of disgust research to modern life.  It is relevant to a wide range of psychological research and is particularly important to behavior viewed through an evolutionary lens,  As such, it will stimulate further research and clinical applications that allow for a broader conceptualization of human behavior.

The reader will find:

Succinct and accessible summaries of key perspectives

Highlights of new scientific developments

A rich blend of theoretical and empirical chapters 



Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Philip A. Powell

  • Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Nathan S. Consedine

About the editors

Dr. Philip Powell PhD is a Research Fellow in Health Economics and Decision Science at the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has degrees from the Universities of Sussex and Sheffield. His doctoral thesis was on self-disgust in the context of depression. Current research interests include the role of emotions in health, wellbeing, and consumer behaviour; quality of life research; and methods in health economics. He has published his work widely in leading international journals and previously co-edited The Revolting Self: Perspectives on the Psychological, Social, and Clinical Implications of Self-Directed Disgust (Routledge, 2015). He enjoys playing guitar, hiking, weight lifting, going on adventures with his family, and dislikes coconut. He’s a recent vegetarian.

Prof. Nathan Consedine PhD works in health psychology in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His original training is in the basic understanding of emotion and emotion regulatory processes, evaluating how these factors may be linked to physical and mental health. He has held positions at Long Island University (Brooklyn) and Columbia University and returned to New Zealand in 2009 to begin testing specific ideas about the role of emotions in human behaviour in experimental and clinical designs. Current research interests include experimental studies of disgust, fear, and embarrassment, studies of medical compassion, and the links between emotion regulatory skills and health. He has published more than 150 scientific works and is an Associate Editor and reviewer for numerous international journals. He enjoys fishing, tennis, playing with his children, and listening to the sorts of music that his colleagues dislike. He’s not a vegetarian but thinks he probably should be.





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