“…In the political domain, disgust has mostly been associated with the first function-the avoidance of pathogens. That is, pathogen avoidance is reported to correlate with negative attitudes toward immigrants (Aarøe et al, 2017), gay people (Balzer & Jacobs, 2011;Smith et al, 2011), premarital sex (Smith et al, 2011), and political conservatism in general (Inbar et al, 2011;Smith et al, 2011; but see Bakker, Schumacher, et al, 2020). In our view, it is hard to see how pathogen avoidance motivates disgust against politicians in general or politicians such as Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in particular.…”