2018
DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2018.1474244
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Disgust sensitivity is associated with heightened risk perception

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“…Specifically, the findings show that, similar to group members’ underestimation of the risk posed by unhealthy group norms (e.g., Campbell & Stewart, ), experiencing a shared social identity in mass gatherings lowers health risk perceptions. Second, the findings elucidate how lowered perceived disgust underpins this negative relationship in the context of mass gatherings; this extends previous research that has shown that sharing a social identity lowers disgust responses (Reicher et al , ) and research that has linked disgust sensitivity to heightened health risk perceptions (Karg et al , ). The findings pose concerns for the management of mass gatherings; lowered disgust amongst crowd members could facilitate disease transmission by encouraging resource sharing (Pellerin & Edmond, ; Reicher et al , ) or other practices likely to be affected by an attenuated disgust response.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 78%
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“…Specifically, the findings show that, similar to group members’ underestimation of the risk posed by unhealthy group norms (e.g., Campbell & Stewart, ), experiencing a shared social identity in mass gatherings lowers health risk perceptions. Second, the findings elucidate how lowered perceived disgust underpins this negative relationship in the context of mass gatherings; this extends previous research that has shown that sharing a social identity lowers disgust responses (Reicher et al , ) and research that has linked disgust sensitivity to heightened health risk perceptions (Karg et al , ). The findings pose concerns for the management of mass gatherings; lowered disgust amongst crowd members could facilitate disease transmission by encouraging resource sharing (Pellerin & Edmond, ; Reicher et al , ) or other practices likely to be affected by an attenuated disgust response.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 78%
“…Disgust – a feeling of revulsion elicited by potential noxious stimuli – has been proposed to be an evolved defence mechanism to avoid others’ pathogens, especially strangers’ pathogens to which the immune system is likely ill‐prepared to fend off (Curtis, de Barra, & Aunger, ; Faulkner, Schaller, Park, & Duncan, ). Naturally, disgust sensitivity is associated with heightened health risk perceptions (Karg, Wiener‐Blotner, & Simone, ). Perceived and experienced disgust therefore affects how people interact with one another – people are indeed less disgusted by those with whom they share a social identity (e.g., Reicher, Templeton, Neville, Ferrari, & Drury, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From an evolutionary perspective, disgust may function primarily with the objective of rejecting offensive food [ 32 , 33 , 34 ] or, more generically, to avoid contact with substances that transmit pathogens [ 35 ]. The psychological and economic literature focused on the relationship between physical disgust and risk sensitivity: for example, it has been found a positive association between disgust and risk-aversion [ 36 ], similarly, another study demonstrated that disgust sensitivity is correlated with heightened risk perception [ 37 ]. More recently, a study found that disgust only dampens participants’ propensity to take the gain, but not the loss [ 38 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They argue that associations between pathogen disgust sensitivity (PDS) and a multitude of non-disgust related threats suggest this measure is in fact tapping a more generalized sensitivity to risk. Another common measure of disgust sensitivity, the Disgust Scale -Revised (DS-R) [van Overveld et al, 2011], is also associated with heightened risk perceptions across a broad range of risk domains (e.g., social, financial, health) [Karg, Wiener-Blotner and Schnall, 2019]. This work raises the concern that common measures of disgust sensitivity are not reliably measuring disgust, but rather a more generalized perception of risk.…”
Section: Disgust or Risk?mentioning
confidence: 99%