Overview
- 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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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.
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Succinct and accessible summaries of key perspectives
Highlights of new scientific developments
A rich blend of theoretical and empirical chapters
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Keywords
- Inductions, methods and measurement in disgust research
- The evolution of disgust
- Disgust, parasites, and the behavioral immune system
- Disgust, olfaction, and perception
- Neuroscience and physiology of disgust
- Morality and disgust in the sociocultural fabric
- Individual differences in disgust
- Disgust in mental health
- Disgust, prejudice, and stigma
- Disgust and chronic health conditions
- Disgust in interpersonal relationships
- Role of disgust in sexual relationships
- Disgust, diet, food selection, and nutrition
- Disgust and public health
- Disgust and consumer behavior
- Politics, power, and disgust
- Disgust, law, and the legal system
- Affective science
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
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Theoretical Issues in Disgust
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Disgust and Its Applications
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Handbook of Disgust Research
Book Subtitle: Modern Perspectives and Applications
Editors: Philip A. Powell, Nathan S. Consedine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84486-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84485-1Published: 17 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84488-2Published: 18 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84486-8Published: 16 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 299
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Applied Science, multidisciplinary